✠✠✠ Dhanteras Festival 2023 ✠✠✠
Dhanatrayodashi | Yamadeepdaan | Dhan Teyras | Asweyuja Bahula Thrayodasi / Dhantheran
When is Dhanteras 2023?
Dhanteras is on November 10th, 2023 (Friday)
Dhanteras marks the main day of five-days- in length Diwali Festival. Dhanteras Festival, otherwise called Dhantrayodashi or Dhanvantari Trayodashi, falls on the propitious thirteenth lunar day of Krishna Paksha in the Hindu month of Kartik (October/November). In the word Dhanteras, Dhan (Hindi Word) remains for riches. On Dhanteras Goddess Laxmi is worshiped to give thriving and prosperity. Consequently Dhan Teras holds significantly more noteworthiness for the business group.
An extremely intriguing tale about Dhanteras Festival says that once the sixteen year old child of King Hima. was destined to kick the bucket by a snake-chomp on the fourth day of his marriage according to his horoscope. On that specific fourth day of his marriage his young spouse did not enable him to rest. She laid every one of the adornments and bunches of gold and silver coins in a major store at the passage of her better half's boudoir and lit multitudinous lights everywhere. What's more, she continued recounting stories and singing tunes.
Whenever Yama, the lord of Death touched base there in the appearance of a Serpent his eyes got blinded by that stun of those splendid lights and he couldn't enter the Prince's chamber. So he hopped over the store of the decorations and coins and sat there entire night tuning in to the musical melodies. In the morning he discreetly left. In this manner the youthful spouse spared her better half from the grasp of death. From that point forward this day of Dhanteras came to be known as the day of Yamadeepdaan and lights are continued consuming for the duration of the night in respectful love to Yam, the lord of Death.
As indicated by another well known legend, when the divine beings and evil spirits agitated
the sea for Amrit or nectar, Dhanvantari (the doctor of the divine beings and an incarnation of Vishnu) developed conveying a container of the mixture upon the arrival of Dhanteras.
To check the propitious day, houses and business premises are remodeled and adorned. Doorways are made bright with exquisite customary themes of Rangoli plans to welcome the Goddess of Wealth and Prosperity. To show her hotly anticipated landing, little impressions are drawn with rice flour and vermilion powder everywhere throughout the houses. Lights are continued consuming all as the nights progressed.
Dhanteras Traditions
On Dhanteras Hindus think of it as promising to buy gold or silver articles or possibly maybe a couple new utensils. It is trusted that new "Dhan" or some type of valuable metal is an indication of good fortunes. Laxmi-Puja is performed in the nights when small Diyas of mud are lit to head out the shadows of malice spirits. Bhajans reverential melodies in acclaim of Goddess Laxmi are likewise sung.
Dhanteras Celebrations
Dhanteras is praised with zeal and excitement. "Lakshmi-Puja" is performed in the nights when minor diyas of mud are lit to head out the shadows of malevolent spirits. Bhajans or reverential melodies in acclaim of Goddess Laxmi are sung and Naivedya of conventional desserts is offered to the Goddess. There is an impossible to miss custom in Maharashtra to delicately pound dry coriander seeds with jaggery and offer as Naivedya.
In towns cows are embellished and worshiped by agriculturists as they shape the fundamental wellspring of their pay. In south cows are offered extraordinary love as they
should be the incarnation of Goddess Mata Lakshmi and accordingly they are decorated and
worshiped on this day.