This is the Vat Savitri Katha (वट सावित्री कथा) which is read and heard by fasting married women who observe the Vat Savitri Vrat (वट सावित्री व्रत). Vat Savitri Vrat (vrat means fast) is observed on the Jyeshtha Purnima which falls on the full moon day of the Jyeshtha month of Hindu calender (May-June). Vat Purnima (Purnima means full...
Savitri was the beautiful daughter of Aswapati, the king of Madra Desa (Madra Province). She selected Satyawaan as her husband. Satyavan was a prince in exile whose father Dyumatsen had lost his kingdom. He lived in the forest with his blind father and mother. When Narada Muni – a divine sage and a traveling monk with the ability to...
Vat Savitri Vrat (fast) is observed by the Hindu married women for health and longevity of their husbands. Vat means Banyan tree and Savitri is the epitome of an ideal wife who brought back the life of her husband Satyavan by fasting and earnestly appealing to Yamaraja (the Hindu God of Death). Thus, Vat Savitri Pooja (worship) is offered...
