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Akchaya Tritiya
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The annual festival of Akchaya Trityia is celebrated in the month of April. The
Hindus believe that cereals and drinking water given to the poor on this day of
the year, never gets wasted, because the Hindu scriptures (including the Vabisha
Purana) have laid great religious importance to such alms made specially on this
auspicious day.
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Although Akchaya Trityia is a religious ceremony, it gives us an indication of the
social and economical management of ancient India. The Indians, then, used to profess
religion of their own sweet accord. Without being compelled by anybody or any authority,
they would distribute cereals and drinking water to the poor on this day, with a
free and clean heart. Thus, the nation solved its economical problems to some extent,
when the rich willingly parted with their commodity for the sake of their poor brothers.
In other words, acute scarcity never existed in any section of the society at that
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Even today, Hindus distribute satu (made of millet and juice) on this festival
of Akchaya Trityia. During summer days, there is scarcity of drinking water and
different diseases on the rise. In such conditions, satu is considered very
beneficial because millet is easily digestible. The other items usually donated
to the needy on this festival are umbrellas and shoes. Therefore Akchaya Trityia
is not only a religious ceremony, but it's also an occasion of mutual give and take.
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Millet being easily digestible, is considered to be very useful and a godly cereal
that is also used to prepare pinda for pitras. The Trityia era began
from the day of Akchaya Trityia. On this auspicious day, Lord Parshuram was born
on Earth, with the mission to punish the infidel rulers and to re¬establish the
importance and dignity of religion on Earth, which had greatly degraded during the
reign of those infidels. From this day onwards, the custom of making Paushala
started all over India, for providing safe drinking water to travellers, hermits
and the poor.
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It is believed that cereal is the main sustainer of human life on earth. The Srimatvagawat
Gita has aptly described cereal as "Annad bhawanta bhutani paryanait annha sanwab
yagyat bhawati paryanai Yagya Karma samudha Vawa'l" - which means, human
beings survive on cereal. The clouds that water the Earth through rains, are formed
from the smoke of cereals. Even the veda has described cereal as "Brahma Aanha"
and has given it a godly status. So giving alms of such a godly commodity and other
necessities (such as umbrellas and shoes) to the poor and the needy on this special
day, makes this occasion very auspicious and important to all Hindus .
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