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Chatt / Chhat / Chat / Chhatt pooja is a Hindu festival celebrated especially by Biharis. The word "Chatt" means the number six in Hindi .The Chatt festival is dedicated to the Sun god.

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Chatt pooja is a Hindu festival celebrated especially by Biharis. The word "Chatt" means the number six in Hindi .The Chatt festival is dedicated to the Sun god.

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Devotees, whose wishes have been fulfilled crawl the entire route from their house to the river banks, as an offering to the Sun God.

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Chatt pooja is a Hindu festival celebrated especially by Biharis. The word "Chatt" means the number six in Hindi .The Chatt festival is dedicated to the Sun god.

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Chatt is a festival dedicated to the Sun God, considered to be a means to thank the sun for bestowing the bounties of life in earth and fulfilling particular wishes.

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Chatt pooja is a Hindu festival celebrated especially by Biharis. The word "Chatt" means the number six in Hindi .The Chatt festival is dedicated to the Sun god.

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Devotees offer prayer and seek blessings from the Sun God at the ghat of river Yamuna in Delhi. Chhath Puja is a festival mainly celebrated in Bihar, dedicated to the sun god. It is a kind of thanksgiving to the sun god or Surya Dev.

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Women perfoming religious rituals during Chhath Puja on the banks of River Yamuna in Delhi. Chhath Puja is a festival mainly celebrated especially in Bihar, dedicated to the sun god.

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While young men sequentially prostrate and walk in order to locomote, other young boys sell Marigold flower garlands at the eastern Indian festival of Chhat in New Delhi city.

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Indian devotees pray to the setting sun while standing in an artificial water body during the Chhath festival at the Indian War Memorial, India Gate lawns, in New Delhi, India.

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Hindu women prepare offerings to be made, perform rituals at sunset to mark Chhath Puja festival in New Delhi.

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Indian devotees pray to the setting sun while standing in an artificial water body during the Chhath festival at the Indian War Memorial, India Gate lawns, in New Delhi, India.

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Hindu women dressed in colourful sarees singing devotional songs with smile on their face on the occasion of Chhath puja in Delhi. Chhath Puja is a festival mainly celebrated in Bihar, dedicated to the sun god.

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Devotees offer help to an old aged lady who came to perform Chhath puja on Yamuna banks in Delhi. Chhath Puja is a festival mainly celebrated in Bihar, dedicated to the sun god. It is a kind of thanksgiving to the sun god or Surya Dev.

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Chhath is an ancient Hindu festival dedicated to the Hindu Sun God, Surya, also known as Surya Shashti. The Chhath Puja is performed in order to thank Surya for sustaining life on earth and to request the granting of certain wishes.

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Indian woman pays obeisance to Sun God during Chhath Festival at Panchnadi in Darjeeling Chhath, literally means 'sixth', and this day is the sixth day of the month of Karthik.

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Hindu women dressed in colourful sarees singing devotional songs with smile on their face on the occasion of Chhath puja in Delhi. Chhath Puja is a festival mainly celebrated in Bihar, dedicated to the sun god.

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Daulat ki chaat is a sweet dish, which is made by using froth milk in the dew of winters. This sweet dish is prepared in Delhi and it is said that Mughal emperors consumed the dish - this explains why the dessert has been named as daulat.

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Learn the story behind Chhath! It is early morning on the banks of the Yamuna in Delhi. Women taking dips in the river are Vratins - women who, in the next couple of days, would be fasting and also offering prayers to the Sun god.

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Women devotees gather on the banks of river Yamuna to offer prayers to the Sun God during Chhath puja in Delhi. Chhath, literally means 'sixth', and this day is the sixth day of the month of Karthik.

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Hindus paying obeisance to Sun God during Chhath Festival at Panchnadi in Darjeeling Chhath, literally means 'sixth', and this day is the sixth day of the month of Karthik.

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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.

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Close view of Chhath Puja prasad offered to Sun God in India. Chhath, literally means 'sixth', and this day is the sixth day of the month of Karthik.