Diwali 2024: The pageant of Diwali is being celebrated with nice pomp all through the nation. Diwali is a pageant which is well known as a convention hundreds of years previous. The manner of celebrating Diwali can also be totally different elsewhere. Some folks’s Diwali is seen altering with time. But in some locations hundreds of years previous custom remains to be being adopted. There is an analogous custom in Rajasthan which individuals have been following for hundreds of years. This custom is the custom of clay market. It is claimed that with out this custom, Lakshmi worship can also be thought-about incomplete.
Even gold and silver couldn’t change the clay market.
There is a unique custom of Lakshmi worship in Karauli district of Rajasthan. In this, on the time of puja, earthen pots are crammed in each home. Due to this custom, because the pageant of Diwali approaches, the markets of Karauli get adorned with earthen lamps in addition to earthen markets. Actually, Haat, which is product of mud, has a convention in lots of locations. But in Karauli, a month earlier than Diwali, the native potter households begin shaping these haats of their sq. with a combination of soil and cow dung. These haats are thought-about an emblem of purity and even the haats product of gold and silver haven’t been in a position to change the earthen haats right here. Even at present, native folks give utmost significance to mud markets on the pageant of Diwali.
The native elders, astrologers and pundits right here say that the Haat custom is without doubt one of the most historical traditions of Karauli. Which has been happening right here since historical instances on the pageant of Diwali.
The market is stuffed with 5 sweets
According to native potter Dhanno Devi, each home in Karauli is stuffed with ‘haat’ on Diwali. Which is taken into account auspicious. This market is crammed for the longevity of kids and the prosperity of the household. There is a convention of filling these haats with 5 totally different sweets like lattu, barfi, imrati.
Lakshmi puja is incomplete with out haat
The second Kumbhkar girl, Hukam Bai, informed that Lakshmi puja is taken into account incomplete with out the earthen market in Karauli. These haats are ready with nice effort and their demand will increase a lot on Diwali that many instances the haat can’t be fulfilled. During Diwali, these haats are offered within the markets of Karauli on the charge of Rs 30 to 50 per piece.
What is a market?
This clay market is a mix of 5 clay axes. In this, 4 kulhads are related to one another and the fifth one is positioned on prime of them. This haat is product of mud and cow dung and the Kumbhkar households adorn it with pure colours and native work.
