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Hindu women prepare offerings to be made, perform rituals at sunset to mark Chhath Puja festival in New Delhi. Here the women are seen making chhath puja canopies made from sugar cane where offering are put out as homage to the god of fire - Sun. Chhath, literally means 'sixth', and this day is the sixth day of the month of Karthik. It is believed that the 'Maga Purohits' from the Vedic Age had started this tradition of Sun worship. The Chhath ritual might even pre-date the Vedas as there are references to it in the Rigvedas. It is also believed that Karna the son of the sun god-Surya, who was the ruler of Angadesh, in present day Bihar, started the Chhath tradition. It has had a major religious following in the state of Bihar and has spread further through the people of the region who ha
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