Teej is the festival traditionally organized only for women. An ideal Hindu women aspires to many things a blissful conjugal life, progress and prosperity for her husband a good future for herself and purification of her body and soul. For an unmarried women compliance with the age old tradition ensure a good loving and caring husband. The first of the Teej both marred and unmarried can gather in one place. Amidst and they are laughing, singing, dancing, jacking and enjoying lavish dishes. The merry making goes on until midnight from which the women undergo a twenty four hour fast during which not even a piece of food or single drop of liquid is allowed. He next day these women generally wear crimson saris, singing and dancing in the street leading to Shiva shrines. The Pashupatinath temple is only open to women and priests for that day. They change the religious hymns.The third and last day of the Teej festival is called Rishipanchami. On this day women who have undergone the agonizing fast pay homage to various deities situated on the bank of scared rivers. After a holy bath in the river, they use a piece of datiwan, a scared plant with religious and medicical significance to sprinkle holy water all over their bodies three hundred sixty times. They brush their teeth with the datiwan again three hundred sixty times. The rituals help them to secure exoneration of all sins they might have committed in the past year knowingly or unknowingly.
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