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Dhinga Gavar Festival



Today 28/03/2013 there is a Dhinga Gavar Festival, this is very unique and versatile & it’s celebrated only in the old city of Jodhpur, it starts after 8 pm at 11 places. In this festival you can see the different colors of religion, tradition and culture. All the 11 places are decorated with the lights, like Diwali festival.

This festival is like the carnival of Rio. Where you can see the women’s are in the get up of saint, dacoits, mythological and other historic characters and each one of them carry’s a stick in their hands to protecting the statue of Goddess Gavar, it is popular belief that any bachelor who comes near these women and is stricken by the stick gets married soon with a suitable girl. Stick is called "Baint" in Hindi so this festival is aslo known as Baintamr Teej.
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