Kathmandu. Nepali women are celebrating Rishi Panchami, which is celebrated on the day of Bhadra Shukla Panchami, today by worshiping the seven sages including Arundhati.

It is believed that women wake up early this morning and go to the nearest river, stream, lake, pond and pond to brush their teeth with 365 dativans, and take a bath with cow dung, soil and ash. If there is any defect, it is believed that worshiping the seven sages including Arundhati on the day of Rishi Panchami today will get rid of it.

It is believed that a woman becomes pure by taking a bath on the first day of menstruation, a bath with a bath of

After bathing in this way, Arundhati, along with Atri, Gautam, Bharadwaj, Jamadagni, Vasishtha, Kashyap and Vishwamitra, are worshipped. This is called the Rishi Panchami worship. Since the seven sages are worshipped, today’s Panchami is called ‘Rishi Panchami’.

There is also a legend about Rishi Panchami, which is associated with women’s menstruation. In ancient times, Indra had to suffer the sin of killing Brahma by cutting the head of Vishwarupa into three pieces. Indra, who was tormented by this murder, told his sorrow to Brahma. To atone for Indra’s killing of Brahma, Brahma made Indra suffer the blame for one year and divided the remaining blame into four parts, one each for earth, trees, water and women, and threw them in all directions. This is why there is a religious belief that barren land, trees sprouting, water bubbles, and women’s semen is beginning to appear, informed Pandit Madhusudan Subedi, an active writer of spiritual books.

Since the germs of the abnormal semen that come out of the body of a menstruating woman cause serious diseases and cause problems for women, it is believed that worshiping the Sapta Rishis including Arundhati on this day will free them from such problems.

After bathing and worshiping today, there is a fast to eat unplanted grains, weeds, kaguno, kandmul and karkala, etc., which have not been planted, and sit for a day. Today, a large number of devout women devotees are flocking to Risheshwar temples across the country, including Teku and Mulpani in Kathmandu, for worship. (RSS)