{"id":9610,"date":"2020-08-25T15:14:43","date_gmt":"2020-08-25T09:44:43","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/?p=9610"},"modified":"2020-08-25T15:14:43","modified_gmt":"2020-08-25T09:44:43","slug":"nuakhai-juhar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/nuakhai-juhar\/","title":{"rendered":"Nuakhai Juhar"},"content":{"rendered":"<h3><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\">Relevance: Prelims: Art and culture<\/span><\/h3>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.holidify.com\/images\/cmsuploads\/compressed\/Sambalpuri_Dance_20191122173917.JPG\" alt=\"Nuakhai Juhar 2020- Festival of Odisha\" \/><\/p>\n<h3><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">Why in News<\/span><\/h3>\n<p>The Prime Minister of India greeted the farmers on the occasion of Nuakhai Juhar (23<sup>rd<\/sup>\u00a0August, 2020).<\/p>\n<h3>Key Points<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Nuakhai Juhar is an<strong>\u00a0agricultural festival,<\/strong>\u00a0also called\u00a0<strong>Nuakhai Parab<\/strong>\u00a0or\u00a0<strong>Nuakahi Bhetghat.<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>It is celebrated to welcome the new crop of the season.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Nuakhai<\/strong>\u00a0is a combination of\u00a0<strong>two words<\/strong>\u00a0that signifies eating of<strong>\u00a0new rice<\/strong>\u00a0as \u2018nua\u2019 means new and \u2018khai\u2019 means eat.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>This is the festival of\u00a0<strong>Western Odisha, southern Chhattisgarh<\/strong>\u00a0and adjoining areas of\u00a0<strong>Simdega (Jharkhand).<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>Its coastal counterpart is\u00a0<strong>Nabanna,<\/strong>\u00a0observed in Coastal Odisha.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>It is\u00a0<strong>observed on<\/strong>\u00a0<em>panchami tithi<\/em>\u00a0(the fifth day) of the lunar fortnight of the month of\u00a0<em><strong>Bhadrapada<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0(August\u2013September), the day after the\u00a0<strong>Ganesh Chaturthi<\/strong>\u00a0festival.\n<ul>\n<li>Lagan is the fixed time of the day to celebrate the festival.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Festive Activities:<\/strong>\u00a0Farmers offer the first produce from their lands to Goddess Samaleswari, the famous \u2018Mother Goddess\u2019 of Sambalpur district of Odisha.\n<ul>\n<li>Sambalpuri dance forms like Rasarkeli and Dalkhai can be witnessed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li><strong>Historical Background:<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>It is believed to have been\u00a0<strong>adopted from the tribal communities of western Odisha.<\/strong>\n<ul>\n<li>As the preparations reveal elements of both<strong>\u00a0tribal origins and the Hindu rituals.<\/strong><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<li>Nuakhai festival traces its origin to the Vedic period in\u00a0<em><strong>Panchyajna.<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0One among them was\u00a0<em><strong>Pralambana yajna<\/strong><\/em>\u00a0which means the cutting of new crops and offering them to the mother goddess.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Oral tradition<\/strong>\u00a0of this festival dates back to the\u00a0<strong>12<sup>th<\/sup>\u00a0century A.D.<\/strong>\u00a0when this festival was celebrated by\u00a0<strong>Chauvan Raja Ramai Deo,<\/strong>\u00a0Bolangir district of Odisha.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><span style=\"color: #0000ff;\"><strong>For more such notes, Articles, News &amp; 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