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Pushkaralu festival returns to the Ganga
Context
The 12-day Pushkaralu festival of Telugu-speaking people commenced recently in Varanasi.
About the festival
- The festival is being organised in Kashi this year after a gap of 12 years due to a unique combination of planetary transits.
- Godavari Pushkaralu is celebrated once every 12 years when Brihaspati enters Simha Raasi.
- In this festival, pilgrims worship their ancestors and the river Ganga.
- It is the second event of the recent past to be organised in Varanasi, after the Kashi-Tamil Sangamam.
The story behind
- As per the legend, after severe penance, the devotee Pushkara was blessed by Lord Shiva with the ability to live in water and purify holy rivers.
- On a request from Brhaspati (Jupiter), Pushkara decided to enter one of the 12 sacred rivers — Ganga, Yamuna, Godavari, Krishna, Kaveri, Bhima, Tapti, Narmada, Saraswati, Tungbhadra, Sindhu, and Pranhita.
- Each river has its zodiac sign.
- The river for each year’s festival is decided in accordance with Brihaspati's travel from one zodiac sign to another.
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Pushakaram of these rivers is celebrated when Jupiter / Brihaspati transits from one Raasi (zodiac sign) to the other:
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