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Raksha Bandhan

The thread tied on the full moon of Shravana. The Bhavishya Purana (Uttara 137) has Krishna tell Yudhishthira of the priest's raksha bound with the words that bound Mahabali; the festival tradition tells how Lakshmi tied a thread on Bali's wrist at Sutala and asked for her husband back, which Gujarat remembers as Baleva.

Sources: Wikipedia: Raksha Bandhan (the Bhavishya Purana Uttara 137 passage); Swaminarayan (Bhuj): Raksha Bandhan, the stories of Indrani and of Bali and Lakshmi · see Raksha Bandhan's web

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