09.16.07
Rishi Panchami
By Rajesh KC
Rishi Panchami is celebrated by women, particularly in the hill region and the plains of Terai. Rishi Panchami falls a day after Teej. Though the way Teej is celebrated may differ according to different geographical regions, the festival holds a deep and moral significance among Hindu women. The festival is important because it is the time when Hindu women express how much devoted they are to their husbands.
Teej falls in August/September and women of all castes, class and culture celebrate it merrily. In the morning of Teej, women prepare themselves for fasting, while in the afternoon they sing, dance and worship Hindu deity – Lord Shiva. It is believed that when pleased Shiva, in return, will bless their spouse with long life. Women, clad in beautiful red saris and jewelry, visit Lord Shiva™s temples to make offerings.
Rishi Panchami festival is also associated with women, and women on this day worship Sapta Rishi (seven saints). It is believed that worshiping Shapta Rishi, they ask forgiveness for any sin committed during their monthly periods throughout the year. In Hindu religion, menstruation is taken as a symbol of impurity and women are not supposed to take part in religious practices during their periods. Thus, it is believed that Rishi Panchami is the occasion to wash off one’s impurity of the whole year. The rituals seem peculiar but women practice it happily.
On this day of the Shravan full moon, stars other than the planets are worshipped. In Vedic times it was believed that the spirits of certain departed great sages of the earth were believed to inhabit certain stars, the most famous being the constellation Ursa Major i.e. the seven brightest stars of the north (The Great Bear). Later, the seers became identified with the stars they inhabited. The seven worshipped on Rishi Fifth are – Kasyapa, Atri, Bharadvaja, Visvamitra, Gautama, Jamadagni and Vashishta. Rishi Panchami (Seers fifth) is also observed on Bhadrapada sukla fifth as Atonement.
All pictures are taken in Kumbheswore of Patan.
All pics by Rajesh KC
India Indore(mp) said,
September 21, 2007 at 12:20 pm
Dear Rajesh Jee, This Rishi Panchami™s pictures are really nice & I don™t have words to say more about your pictures here. Today I can sure to I got a chance to see the festival of Rishi Panchami (TEEJ ) to see after these pictures, in Dubai. Rajesh jee, keep it up¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦¦
Thanks & Best Regards
seesan gurung. maidstone UK said,
September 21, 2007 at 3:27 pm
picures speaks thousand words…….. impressive… i luv it …..
bishnu mani bhattarai london said,
September 21, 2007 at 6:25 pm
hi rajesh nowdays most of nepalies people are forgetting it and accepting foregin festival so in that case u try allot to promote our festival,now days most of young people are in abroad so they cann’t found when and which festival is going on,hw it is celebreating by nepales people.in that case we get more information about our great festival.relly this picture takes me to my country and i missing allot
when i saw this picture i cry by remembering my festival,country,friends,and relatives.so i hope in future u will provides more information about all festival.
lonce again lots of thanks
madhab regmi malaysia said,
September 22, 2007 at 6:17 am
very nice picture .
Chhewang Sherpa Boston usa said,
September 22, 2007 at 8:51 am
Thikai chha tara aru chad lai pani yestai manneta dinu parchha, mero matra ramro ra ma thulo banne bhabana rakhnu hunna kinaki we all Nepalese people and there are so many religion not only Hindu and Buddhist
jeevan Dubai said,
September 23, 2007 at 12:57 am
hi this time u photo is not good before one is good. now u put u mother phot may be ha so no no no no good very bad
Malaysia said,
September 23, 2007 at 9:30 am
Rakesh shrestha ( jhor kathmandu)(Hal Malaysia)
Hi,
Rajesh Dai Iam verry happy
\ because Malaysia basar pni afno saskrity hern payako chu.
PURNA CHALISE BANGKOK THAILAND said,
September 23, 2007 at 4:24 pm
Thanks heaps Rajesh ji, this is wher i spend my all childhood in kumbeshwor n grew up, it™s a beautiful small place with all the God n Goddess, proves nepal as land of diversity n culture, n patan best known for its finest tradition of arts and crafts and its rich cultural heritage. We all nepalese should get together and send a MESSAGE for our country people who are still fighting against each other than protecting our beautiful heritage that we have¦.. HOW LONG THIS WILL LAST IF WE DON™T ACT NOW???
PURNA B.CHALISE
BANGKOK THAILAND
Sultan city said,
September 23, 2007 at 6:48 pm
Hi every one what happening in Nepal its seems like bhanda kuti Khelauna when i was child first photo and looks people happy any way and what’s going on future of Nepal don’t look on yourself also look others view point share with others suffering poor people.
Kalyan Nepal, north bay said,
September 25, 2007 at 1:08 am
Teej has always facinate. May be it is because of my Birth Day. But Nepali women singing Teej song had always touch my deeper feeling. I like the way they express their emotion through song. And the picture definetly bring my Memory. And i am always proud of my religion and Culter. Thanks for bringing the picture. It is great.Thanks
robin/maldives,male said,
September 26, 2007 at 4:20 pm
thax RAJESH KC G
Nirvana said,
September 27, 2007 at 10:04 pm
Nice pictures…
I appreciate that some Nepalese are giving continuity to our tradition. Also I
think, it is the time to bring alteration in Nepalese women conditions. Even it is hilarious I am with Mr. Tika Bilas. True!
Even though I am in the free country like the U.S. , some Nepalese people (including women) are trying to keep me inside false notion of our culture.
jo manche america ma aayera illegal kaam gariracha ani aafno swasni ra bacha lai nadekheko 8 barsa bhaisakyo, ani jo manchele aru nari ko ijjat garna jandaina tyahi manche le arulai aafno culture samjhauna khojcha. so funny…poor mentality.
dilu khanal texas usa said,
September 28, 2007 at 5:53 am
beautiful country .nice dance .dam leader not to good
raj barcelona spain said,
September 30, 2007 at 1:39 am
wow good good.
to see but the woried thing is this time is not to be happy at this moment in nepal this kinds of fastival only for reach people hey .
beter help for poor people who don have a any thing.
nepali women are stupid coz they are shoing we are reach
wirieng alot of gold and thing like this .
when nepal will change hope one day the poor and reach people are seame lavel.then is beter .
Mina, Ohio said,
September 30, 2007 at 8:38 am
Very thanks. Pictures are wonderful. We are very proud of having such a culture in Nepal. We can tell we are very colorful not only celebrating our festivals but also having beautiful country. But now I am wondering how long we can keep these cool things with us if political parties keep on fighting each other. God bless our beautiful country.
Leela Bastola said,
October 1, 2007 at 1:38 pm
Nice pictures¦
I appreciate that some Nepalese are giving continuity to our tradition. Also I
think, it is the time to bring alteration in Nepalese women conditions. Even it is hilarious I am with Mr. Tika Bilas. True!
Even though I am in the free country like the U.S. , some Nepalese people (including women) are trying to keep me inside false notion of our culture.
Thanks,
Leela
dallas said,
October 2, 2007 at 5:39 am
feels like being in nepal…thumbs up !! great job…
Kathmandu said,
October 2, 2007 at 10:27 pm
Another example of how religion and cultural norms are used to repress women and make them be subservient to men…what the hell do men do to express their devotion to their significant other…
omagh uk said,
October 4, 2007 at 2:46 am
very very nice pictures. thats our culture.save it dosen’t matter where we r in the world.
thanks rajesh g……
it remaind our culture , family & country too…..
krishna ,prema ,
kawasoti,nepal [now omagh,uk]
dong cindy china said,
October 5, 2007 at 9:50 am
i like nepalese culture teej. but the women need to change some thing about their life. they need to come out from the housework. women need to change themselves, women also can do the work same as the men. In China, most of the wife and husband will do the work and the housework together.
dipak titung tamang,morang said,
October 5, 2007 at 5:38 pm
hi rajesh je,
thank you for nice pic.really teej is the great festival to meet the married sisters.although i am not a hindu religiously but our family celebrate it.my sister RITA come on that day with niece-riya and nephew-rupesh.really it makes happy in our family.celebrate all.
thank you!
Nepali chelee, USA said,
October 7, 2007 at 1:33 pm
I like these pictures. First of all, I like to thank Rajesh who took all of nice pictures and put them in web. However, I don’t celebrete teej although I like these pictures.
Anyway how lucky Nepalese men are? Women worship for thier husbands’ long life wow wow. Hay Nepali gays what do like to do for your wives long life?
tek raj pandey said,
October 8, 2007 at 12:48 pm
thanks for the picture .i want to tell haapy teej i like nepalese culture teej. but the women need to change some thing about their life. they need to come out from the housework. women need to change themselves, women also can do the work same as the men. In China, most of the wife and husband will do the work and the housework together.
I appreciate that some Nepalese are giving continuity to our tradition. Also I
think, it is the time to bring alteration in Nepalese women conditions. Even it is hilarious I am with Mr. Tika Bilas. True!
Even though I am in the free country like the U.S. , some Nepalese people (including women) are trying to keep me inside false notion of our culture.
jo manche america ma aayera illegal kaam gariracha ani aafno swasni ra bacha lai nadekheko 8 barsa bhaisakyo, ani jo manchele aru nari ko ijjat garna jandaina tyahi manche le arulai aafno culture samjhauna khojcha. so funny¦poor mentality.
Jitendra from Australia said,
October 11, 2007 at 6:06 am
it’s good for all we nepalese .we should develop new technologies in our country.bye
indra b.chand.malaysia said,
October 14, 2007 at 8:15 am
rajes sir
please u can take bring my vlages also same to pitchre. we r greatfull with u,thanku.
my vlage in surkhet matela 4
Deepak pd bhusal said,
October 14, 2007 at 3:26 pm
REALLY IT IS INTERSTING PHOTOS OF TIJ .I AM HAPPY AND IT IS GOOD FOR WE ALL NEPALESE PEOPLE.WE ALSO LOOK THIS PHOTOS ALL AROUND THE WORLD SO THAT I THINK WE ARE IN A SAME PLACE AND SHARING THE FESTIVALS.OK AGAIN BEST OF LUCK FOR COLLECTING THESE BEUTIFUL PHOTOS.
bishnu niure(chennai) said,
November 15, 2007 at 7:42 pm
dear rajesh k.c ji derai ramro cha.
Ganesh and Kalpana-kentucky,USA said,
November 19, 2007 at 1:03 am
Thankx for a lot to Rajesh KC. Very Very beautiful picture of different festivals and culture.Thankx too Kantipur and Phalano.com.
raj kumar said,
November 20, 2007 at 4:56 pm
Hi
this is nice
Devi Lal Shrestha From Jamaica said,
December 5, 2007 at 8:00 am
Thank you very much for remind our festival and our coulter to everyone who are far from home but when i show this picture really i feel i am not far from my country because i am in Jamaica here i did not meet any one from nepal anyway thanks once and keep it up.
Sardam Thapa, Dubai, U.A.E. said,
December 5, 2007 at 8:35 pm
Thank you very much for reminding our festival and our coulter to everyone who are far from home but when I show this picture really I feel that I am not far from my country because I am in Dubai here.
Thanks once and keep it up.
Done a wonderful job!
Dipendra dev Gautam doha Qatar said,
February 23, 2008 at 11:13 pm
this is very nice festival. i like this festivals .
raju khatri dubai said,
February 24, 2008 at 3:03 pm
biutiful ghar ko yad aundai cha
rudra bhattarai,khotang said,
March 2, 2008 at 3:32 pm
these picture showing our culture and our festivle.is our property.i wis to rajesh kc.he is a our famous camara men.he is best person.i like a risipanchami chad.every hindu women they fasting and praying in temple then they enjoing a singing and dancing.
subarna gaire"yatree" hyatt regency hotel dubai said,
March 30, 2008 at 9:12 pm
thanku so much reminding our festivals and our cultaure and they are fasting one day ,pray in the temple the are enjoy and singing and danching very nice keep in heart,
thanks
dinesh from malaysia said,
May 11, 2008 at 2:34 pm
oh really of set our culture bes we need to convert to jamana
menuka karki/lagankhel said,
May 16, 2008 at 6:20 am
hi
oh really of set our culture bes we need to convert to jamana
khem sharma/indira nagar lucknow india said,
May 18, 2008 at 4:02 pm
intresting pic. rajeshji pls provide pic of ridi bazar to burtibang and nishi khola. thanks& welldone!
rasmita goldcoast said,
May 27, 2008 at 9:13 am
ek dum ghar ko and banglamukhi mai ko samjana aairacha miss u banglamukhi mata
mamata germany said,
May 30, 2008 at 12:30 am
very nice picture.thyanks a lot of.
narayan anjaan (Dubai) said,
June 10, 2008 at 8:01 pm
Didi, bahini,ama bhaju haru sabai geet gayera jham jham nacheko khub yaad aairaheko cha yo photo haru dekhda nepal ma nai ralmaliyeko jasto lagcha..aafno desh lai jhan miss gareko chu…………
Raj B. B. Budapest Hungary said,
June 26, 2008 at 12:49 pm
Mero Pyaro Desh Nepalma jati ramro riti ribaaj chha, yasto kahi pani chhaina
yaha nari harule afno shreemaan lai puja gardachhan, shreemaan lai sabai chij
samjinchhan, barshama ak choti aaune Shiva Ratrima nari harule dinvari afno pyaro shreemaan ko lamo aayuko lagi bihaaandekhi khana pani nakhaar Roja
baseka hunchhan, sathai kuwari nariharule Ramro ramro shreemaan paunakolagi shivaji ko upashana garekodekhinchha, He ! mero pyaro deshka Nariho sadhaivari yastai garnu,sadhaivari deshko itihaas nabhulnu, yahi ramro lagchha, sabai shreemaanle pani yastai afni shreemati sathai her naariko ramro
ijjat dinu pardachha, yahimero afno bhanai chha, B.Raj Bhattarai Budapest,Hungary