Day 1
नहाय खाय
Nahay Khay
The household is purified and the vrat begins with a single sattvic meal.
छठी मईया के गीत
The songs that carry Chhath from the kitchen to the ghat
A song library devoted entirely to Chhath Puja — the paramparik geet your grandmother hummed, the arghya songs of dawn, and this season's new releases.
Chhath in four days
Nahay Khay to Usha Argh — the whole vrat, in order.
Day 2
खरना
Kharna
A day-long fast without water, broken at dusk with kheer and roti.
Day 3
संध्या अर्घ्य
Sandhya Argh
Offering arghya to the setting sun, standing in the water at dusk.
Day 4
उषा अर्घ्य
Usha Argh
Arghya to the rising sun, then the fast is broken with prasad.
Featured Chhath geet
The four songs no Chhath is complete without.
केलवा के पात पर
उगs हे सूरज देव
पहिले पहिल छठी मईया
काँच ही बाँस के बहंगिया
From the ghats
Soop, thekua, diyas and the sun on the water.
Chhath asks for no priest and no temple. Only clean water, a bamboo soop, and a song sung facing the sun.
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