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const vidhi = [
    {
        english: 'On the morning of Karva Chauth the fasting woman rises before sunrise and bathes. Before dawn she eats the Sargi — a meal traditionally sent by her mother-in-law, which may include fenia (fine vermicelli), milk, fruit, sweets, and dry fruit — for this is the last food she will take until the moon rises. She then takes a Sankalpa, a resolve to keep the vrat for the well-being, long life, and prosperity of her husband and family. From sunrise the fast is kept without food, and in the strict observance without water (nirjala), until the moon is sighted at night.',
    },
    {
        english: 'Through the day the fasting women set aside heavy work. They dress in festive colours — red, gold, pink, and orange are favoured — adorn themselves with the Solah Shringar, and apply mehndi. Married women visit one another and exchange decorated karwas.',
    },
    {
        english: 'The puja is performed in the evening, in the Sandhya hour after sunset and before moonrise. An image of Gaur Mata — the goddess Parvati, also called Chauth Mata — is established for worship; in older practice the figure was shaped from earth and cow dung. Parvati is worshipped first, and with her Lord Shiva, Lord Kartikeya, and Lord Ganesha. Offerings of roli, akshat, flowers, incense, a lamp, fruit, and sweets are made, and the karwa is filled with water or milk.',
    },
    {
        english: 'The fasting women then gather together in a circle for the recitation of the Karva Chauth Vrat Katha. An elder woman, or a priest, narrates the story while the others listen, each holding her puja thali. As the Katha is told the women pass their thalis around the circle — the feri — and sing the traditional songs of the vrat. One karwa is set aside to be given afterward in daan to a Brahmin or to a married woman, and the Baya — a gift of food such as halwa, puri, and mathri — is offered to the mother-in-law or sister-in-law, whose blessing is sought.',
    },
    {
        english: 'When the moon rises, the fasting woman comes out with her puja thali, the karwa, and a sieve. She looks at the moon through the sieve and offers it argha — water poured from the karwa or a lota — with a prayer for her husband’s long life. She then looks at her husband’s face through the same sieve. The husband gives his wife the first sip of water and the first morsel of food from his own hand, and with this the fast is broken and the vrat is complete.',
    },
];
export default vidhi;
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