# Gangaur 2027: Date, Rituals and Significance

> Gangaur 2027 is on Friday, 9 April. Gangaur is the festival of Goddess Gauri and Lord Shiva (Isar), kept in Rajasthan from Holi to Chaitra Shukla Tritiya.

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## Significance & Spiritual Meaning

Spiritual philosophy, inner meaning and eternal virtues

Significance & Spiritual Meaning

Gangaur is the festival of Goddess Gauri and Lord Shiva (Isar), kept in Rajasthan from Holi to Chaitra Shukla Tritiya.

Spiritual philosophy, inner meaning and eternal virtues

Unmarried girls pray for a good husband and married women for the long life of the husband. Images of Gauri are made, decorated and carried in procession.

## Key Rituals & Observance

Step-by-step sacred rituals and worship practices

1. 1 Step 1 Worship of Gauri and Isar with songs.
2. 2 Step 2 Fast, henna and decorated clothes.
3. 3 Step 3 A procession and immersion of the images.

## Sacred Deity & Powerful Mantras

The Divine Mother • Vedic and Puranic chants for peace and blessings

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#### The Divine Mother · Mantra

ॐ दुं दुर्गायै नमः ॥

Om Dum Durgayai Namah

Meaning

Salutations to The Divine Mother.

108 Japa Sacred Mantra

## Fasting & Parana Guidelines

✓ Keep the fast from sunrise, with water, fruit or milk only if the fast is not strict.

✓ Avoid grain, onion, garlic and salt in the strict form of the fast.

✓ Break the fast at the time the vrat directs, after the worship.