# Hartalika Vrat Legend: Story and Vidhi > The Hartalika Teej vrat katha: Parvati's penance for Shiva, the friends who carried her to the forest and the linga of sand. Source: https://www.hinducalendar.today/festivals/teej/legends/hartalika-vrat-legend | Day | Bhadrapada Shukla Tritiya | | --- | --- | | Told by | Shiva to Parvati | | Kept for | A long married life; a good husband | ## The katha Parvati, daughter of the mountain king Himavan, had set her heart on Shiva from childhood. In the Himalaya she did a long and severe penance for him, living on leaves, then on air, through heat and cold, until her father grew anxious for her. Then Narada came to Himavan and said that Vishnu wished to marry his daughter. Himavan, delighted, agreed. When Parvati heard this she was heartbroken, for she would have no one but Shiva. She told her friends, who carried her away (harat) secretly into a dense forest and hid her in a cave, so that she could not be given to Vishnu. There, on the third day of the bright half of Bhadrapada, under the Hasta nakshatra, she made a linga of sand and worshipped it, fasting without food or water and keeping awake all night singing Shiva's praises. Moved by her devotion, Shiva appeared and promised to make her his wife. The next morning Parvati broke her fast and immersed the linga. Himavan, searching for his daughter, found her in the forest, and when she told him her vow he agreed to give her to Shiva, and the two were married. 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