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UNIT SIXTEEN

CONFIRMING AND DENYING

Reading
Curriculum Development Centre
A. Engage yourself

Look at the picture below, and answer the following questions.

CDC

a. What does this picture reveal?

b. What festivals are celebrated in your community?
c. Do you celebrate Jitiya festival or not?
B. Study time

Read the following text, and do the activities that follow.
Jitiya Festival

Jitiya is an important festival of Nepali married women of Mithilanchal and
Tharu women of all castes. This festival is named after Masabashi's son
Jimutavahana, a blessing son of the Sun. Masabashi was an unmarried princess
who spent her life as hermit living in a hermitage.
Jitiya falls in the month of Ashwin (September–October). It is celebrated for
three days on Saptami (the seventh day) Astami (the eighth day) and Navami
(the ninth day). The fasting day, Astami, is called Jitiya. The married women
take brata (fast) for the good fortune of their children, husband and family.
In this festival, brothers invite their married sisters to their homes, and the
married women go to their maiti (maternal home).
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