{"id":30294,"date":"2025-10-19T12:15:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-19T06:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/?p=30294"},"modified":"2025-10-24T17:42:05","modified_gmt":"2025-10-24T12:12:05","slug":"bathousim","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/bathousim\/","title":{"rendered":"Bathousim"},"content":{"rendered":"<h2><b>Bathou Religion Latest News<\/b><\/h2>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Bathou religion of Bodo community in Assam gets a separate code in the upcoming census.<\/span><\/p>\n<h2><b>About Bathou Religion<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is the <\/span><b>traditional faith of the Bodos<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, the largest plains tribe of <\/span><b>Assam.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The word \u2018Bathou\u2019 is derived from the <\/span><b>Bodo language<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, where \u2018Ba\u2019 means \u2018five\u2019 and \u2018thou\u2019 means <\/span><b>\u2018deep philosophical thought\u2019.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The faith system is based on <\/span><b>five elements<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">: Bar (Air), San (Sun), Ha (Earth), Or (Fire), and Okhrang (Sky).<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<h2><b>Beliefs of Bathousim<\/b><\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The community worships <\/span><b>Bwrai Bathou<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> as the supreme god. In the Bodo language, the word \u2018Bwrai\u2018 refers to the \u2018<\/span><b>eldest\u2019 man concerning power or knowledge.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The Bathou faith is <\/span><b>centred on the Sijou plant<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> (Euphorbia splendens).<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It is planted in the Bathou altar at the centre as the symbol of Bathou religion of the Bodos.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"1\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">It has an important place and has been widely accepted as the <\/span><b>symbol of life<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> or soul by the Bodo people since time immemorial.<\/span>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">This plant is the living symbol of <\/span><b>Bathoubwrai, the supreme God of the Bodos.<\/b><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Bodos plant the sijou tree on an elevated altar <\/span><b>encircled with a bamboo<\/b><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> fencing of eighteen pairs of posts weaved with five pieces of bamboo split.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"font-weight: 400;\" aria-level=\"2\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The five bamboo strips signify the five bindings of Bathou, viz. (i) birth, (ii) marriage or procreation, (iii) sorrow, (iv) happiness and (v) death.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><b>Source:<\/b> <a href=\"https:\/\/economictimes.indiatimes.com\/news\/india\/bathou-religion-of-bodo-community-in-assam-gets-a-separate-code-in-the-upcoming-census\/articleshow\/124636546.cms?from=mdr\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">ET<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bathou is the traditional faith of the Bodos in Assam, rooted in five elements\u2014Air, Sun, Earth, Fire, and Sky\u2014symbolizing deep philosophical thought.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":30295,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[3327,21,22,23],"class_list":{"0":"post-30294","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","8":"tag-bathousim","9":"tag-prelims-pointers","10":"tag-upsc-current-affairs","11":"tag-upsc-prelims-current-affairs","12":"no-featured-image-padding"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30294","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=30294"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/30294\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/30295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=30294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=30294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vajiramandravi.com\/current-affairs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=30294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}