Ganesh Chaturti a 10 day festival. The elephant headed deity Ganesh. The god of prosperity and wisdom . It beings on the 4th day (Chaturti) of the month of Bhadrapada (August or September) the 6th month of the Hindu Calender.
Ganesh Chaturti assumed the nature of a gala public celebration when the Maratha ruler chhatrapati Shivaji Maharaj used it to encourage nationalist sentiment among his subjects, who were fighting the Mughals . In 1893 ,when the British banned political assemblies the festival was revived by the Indian nationalist leader Bal Gangadhar Tilak . It is also said that while writting the Mahabharata Ganesha was getting heated and to cool down his temperature Ved Vyasa covered Ganesha in clay and put some тАЬDurvaтАЭ grass on him so that ganesha body temperature is cool dowm.
Celebration. the artists starts making idol of ganesha in different style and size months before the festival. At the day of festival people bring idol and do Pranapratishtha a ritural to invoke life in the idol followed by shhodashopachara , and offering flowers garlands ,kumkum , duing aarti and then offering Prasad usually Modak (sweet dumplings) which are the favourite of Ganesha. At the conclusion of the festival idols are carried to local rivers in huge procession accompanied by drumbeats , dhol tash, dancing singing and saying тАШGanapati Bappa Morya pudchya varshi lokaryaтАЩ means тАШGanesha pls come faster next yearтАЩ and then immersed in water which is Visarjan. symbolizing ganeshaтАЩs homeward journey to mount kailas.
People also make lagre pandals and decorat them usually make a theme and also give socail awareness massegs in public by doing contribution and keeping various competitions .
In our city this 10 days we have so much fun that this 10 days pass so quickly. We have a street which have big big idols and with different programes and offering foods to people the street is full and looks like a fair.
But this year due to covid we miss all those specialy the Dhol tash beats which used to fill and inlight the mood.
Hope Vighnaharta removes all Vighna from our life and we can again celebrate this festival with full joy.
1st vyas mahraji offering durva i donтАЩt know its written in which books but i have heard of it many times and my grandparents also said of this story.
2nd ya in jalna we have тАЬManacha GanapatiтАЭ which is the very first ganapati mandal in jalna, and it is said that our wish are granted by them , the idol of Ganesha is made of silver.
3rd at the time of visarjan we have tradition of making queue for trucks by taking the numbers and whole night this truck are in queue and pass by through city and people specially come out at night to visit this and gulal is spread whith music ,dance. Manacha Ganapati which always stand at 1st no in this queue how much late it is but it will come on its 1st place in this queue. Now i donтАЩt have its pic.due to covid we are not allowed to gather when every possible i will definitely share its pic.
@TusharSuradkar@C_T Rajur cha Ganapati is very important, on mangli Chaturti people from Jalna goes walking to take darshan of Ganesha. It is also said that rajur cha Ganapati fulfill our wishes.