{"id":12555,"date":"2023-06-27T09:54:03","date_gmt":"2023-06-27T04:24:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=12555"},"modified":"2025-04-01T19:58:27","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T14:28:27","slug":"kharchi-puja","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/kharchi-puja\/","title":{"rendered":"Kharchi Puja"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><strong>About Kharchi Puja:<\/strong><\/h2>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>It is one of the main <strong>festivals of Tripura.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It is performed <strong>during the months of July-August<\/strong> on the eighth day of the new moon.<\/li>\n<li>The meaning of Kharchi can be understood by splitting the word into two Tripuri words \u201cKhar\u201d or Kharta meaning sin and \u201cChi\u201d or si meaning cleaning. Hence it signifies <strong>the cleansing of our sins.\u00a0<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It occurs during the month of \u2018Ashad\u2019 on the \u2018Shukla Ashtami\u2019 day.<\/li>\n<li>The fourteen Gods are worshipped by the <strong>Royal priest \u2018Chantai.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>It lasts for seven days and it takes place at old Agartala in the <strong>Fourteen Gods<\/strong> temple known as the \u2018<strong>Chaturdasha Devata\u2019 temple premises.<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>The Kharchi Puja deities do not have a full body; they have only heads which are worshipped.<\/li>\n<li>On the day of the puja, the fourteen Gods are taken from the temple <strong>to the river Saidra <\/strong>by the Chantai members and given bathe with the holy river water, then carried back to the temple.\u00a0<\/li>\n<li>This festival&#8217;s customs are completely related to the authentic Tripuri traditions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<h3><strong>Q1) What is special about the\u00a0 Kokborok language?<\/strong><\/h3>\n<p>Kokborok is an indigenous language spoken by the Tripuri people, who are the original inhabitants of the Indian state of Tripura. It is primarily spoken in Tripura and some parts of neighboring states in northeastern India.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong>\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pib.gov.in\/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=1935466\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><u>PM conveys best wishes on Kharchi Puja<\/u><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kharchi Puja is one of the main festivals of Tripura.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":12556,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-12555","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12555","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12555"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12555\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/12556"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12555"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12555"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12555"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}