Festivals, 4 Aug 2027
Hariyali Teej
The monsoon festival of Teej, when women in north India dress in green and wear bridal adornment for Parvati.
Teej is a group of festivals kept by Hindu women, mostly in Rajasthan, Uttar Pradesh, Haryana, Bihar and Nepal, honouring the goddess Parvati and her union with Shiva. Hariyali Teej, the "green" Teej, comes in the monsoon month of Shravan. Women wear green clothes and bangles, apply henna, and put on the adornment of a married woman, including sindoor and a bindi; swings are hung from trees and songs are sung. In Jaipur a procession carries the goddess through the old city. The later Hartalika Teej, a few weeks after, is kept with a fast.
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Photo credits on this page
The small pictures above come from Wikimedia Commons under free licences. Some are cropped to fit.
- Bindi: Vinay Sahay, CC BY-SA 4.0, source
- Sindoor: Masum-al-hasan, CC BY-SA 3.0, source