FestivalIndian · Hindu
Teej
Hariyali Teej · Sindhara Teej
Next date
Wednesday, 4 August 2027
- Tithi at sunrise
- Waxing Seconduntil 08:20
- Nakshatra
- Maghauntil 11:36
- Lunar month
- Shravan
- Sunrise
- 06:10Sunset 19:21
In short
The monsoon Teej of the north, kept on swings hung from trees.
The story
The monsoon Teej of the north, kept for Parvati's hundred years of waiting for Shiva and for the marriage that came of it. There are three - Hariyali, Kajari and Hartalika - and what they share is green, rain and swings. It is a women's festival that is kept outdoors, which is unusual, and the swing is not decoration.
Retold from the Gujarati household practice
Why it matters
The monsoon festival of women: swings hung from trees, mehndi, green clothes, and a fast kept for a husband's long life or for the husband hoped for. Parvati won Shiva by austerity rather than by beauty, and the fast is kept in that memory.
What people do
Swings are hung from trees and sung on. Green is worn, mehndi is put on, and married women are sent sindhara - clothes, bangles and sweets - from their parents' house. Ghewar is the sweet. Rajasthan takes Gauri's image through Jaipur in procession on the day.
Retold from the Gujarati household practice
Told differently elsewhere
Three separate Teejs are kept and they are not the same festival: Hariyali Teej in Shravan, Kajari Teej a fortnight later, and Hartalika Teej in Bhadrapad, which is the strictest and is kept without water. Rajasthan and Braj keep the first, Bihar and eastern UP the second, and Nepal, Bihar and the south-east the third.
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