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Festival story · 2 tellings

Shiva the begging farmer of the Gajan

At Bengal's Chaitra Gajan devotees become Shiva and his ganas, act out his marriage and beg from house to house; the god is a poor householder scolded by his wife.

Shiva, Parvati, Shiber Gajan

East India Pan-India