hindu-devotional-texts/src/kathas/ahoi-ashtami/vidhi.ts

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import type { KathaParagraph } from '../../types.js'

const vidhi: KathaParagraph[] = [
  {
    english:
      'The vrat of Ahoi Ashtami is kept by mothers for the well-being and long life of their children, and is also kept by women who long for a child. It is observed on the Ashtami of the Krishna Paksha of Kartik — about eight days before Diwali. The one keeping the vrat fasts from sunrise, without food, until the stars appear in the evening sky.',
  },
  {
    english:
      'On a wall of the home an image of Goddess Ahoi is drawn — traditionally with eight corners (ashta koshthak), for the Ashtami — and beside her are drawn the syahu (a porcupine) and her young; where this is not done, a printed image of Ahoi Mata is used. The image is set up for the evening worship.',
  },
  {
    english:
      'For the puja a kalash is filled with water and covered, and a small earthen karwa is set upon it. The worship is done in the sandhya hour after sunset: Goddess Ahoi is worshipped, halwa and puris are offered along with grass-shoots for the syahu, and offerings of akshat, roli, and milk are made. Many households keep a silver Ahoi — the syahu mala — which is worshipped and afterwards worn at the neck on a thread with two silver beads. The women gather to hear the Ahoi Ashtami Vrat Katha, and the aarti of Ahoi Mata is sung.',
  },
  {
    english:
      'When the stars appear, the one keeping the vrat offers argha to the stars — in some families to the moon — with the water of the kalash, and then breaks the fast. The water of the kalash is kept, and is used for bathing on Roop Chaudas.',
  },
]

export default vidhi