Nahay Khay
Preparation, cleansing and the start of the observance.
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Find the right Chhath Puja wish.
Choose Wish Cards or the tricolor map. Every selection includes five Chhath-specific greetings. Original-language sentences are drafts; where a translation is uncertain, the actual Hindi, English, Bengali or Malayalam bridge language is clearly identified.
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Four days of devotion
A cultural overview only: not fasting instructions or a city-specific ritual calendar.
Kharna
Prayer, fasting and the sharing of prasad.
Sandhya Arghya
Offerings to the setting sun with gratitude.
Usha Arghya
Offerings at sunrise; the observance concludes.
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Regional languages
The reused user-provided Bhasha Atlas master directory contains 302 language records and 570 region-language mappings. These are discovery metadata, not a census or evidence of native Chhath translations in every language. Bridge text is explicitly shown in the actual language written.
A living Sun festival, rooted in eastern India.
Chhath Puja is particularly important to communities of Bihar, Jharkhand and eastern Uttar Pradesh, including Bhojpuri-, Maithili-, Magahi- and other regional-speaking families. The festival honours Surya (the Sun) and Chhathi Maiya. Many families maintain the tradition elsewhere in India and abroad; this directory addresses participants rather than claiming a universal statewide practice.
The four core observances are Nahay Khay, Kharna, Sandhya Arghya (offerings to the setting sun) and Usha Arghya (offerings to the rising sun). Thekua and other prasad, bamboo baskets and riverbank or community-ghat gatherings are associated with many observances. Chhath is also celebrated in the Chaitra season by some communities. This page does NOT claim October 31, 2026 is Chhath Puja; confirm dates and local sunrise/sunset separately.
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12 original-language sets (English, Hindi, Bhojpuri, Maithili, Bengali, Marathi, Nepali, Punjabi, Gujarati, Telugu, Kannada and Malayalam) are editorial drafts, NOT independently fluent-speaker approved. 43 other language options show clearly labeled Hindi, English, Bengali or Malayalam bridge messages. A bridge option is not a native translation.
The 302-language / 570-mapping directory was embedded in an earlier Bhasha Atlas edition and reused unchanged. State-language choices were curated for Chhath and are not a census. The map is an illustrative India locator with approximate pins rather than an administrative or legal boundary dataset; use the accessible state list for tiny territories. Review dialect, spelling and cultural framing before public deployment.