Karva Chauth 2026

Karva Chauth 2026 is on Thursday, 29 October 2026. The tithi runs from 01:07, 29 October 2026 to 22:10, 29 October 2026.

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About Karva Chauth

Karva Chauth or Karwa Chauth or Karaka Chaturthi is a Hindu festival celebrated by Hindu women of Northern India, Western India and Nepal in October or November on the Vikram Samvat month of Kartika. Like many Hindu festivals, Karva Chauth is based on a lunisolar variant of the Hindu Calendars. The festival falls on the fourth day of the waning phase of the moon. On Karva Chauth women observe a fast from sunrise to moonrise for the safety and longevity of their husbands.

Origins

Karva is another word for 'pot' and chauth means 'fourth' in Sanskrit. In Sanskrit scriptures, the festival is referred to as Karaka Chaturthi, karaka meaning an earthen water pitcher and chaturthi denoting the fourth day of the lunar Hindu month. Karva Chauth is mostly celebrated in Northern India. Military campaigns were often conducted by Rajput men in far off places whereby Rajput men would leave their wives and children at home to go off to the war. Their wives would often pray for their safe return. The festival also coincides with the wheat-sowing time. Big earthen pots in which wheat is stored are sometimes called karvas, so the fast may have begun as a prayer for a good harvest in this predominantly wheat-eating Northwestern region. Another story about the origin of this festival relates to the bond of feminine friendship.

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