- Karwa Chauth
Features origins, the legend, rituals, henna designs, and other traditions of this festival. Pages by the Society of Confluence of Festivals in India.
www.karwachauth.com
- Karwa Chauth: Fast for the Married Woman
Offers descriptions for its meaning, the rituals, fasting, and its celebratory customs. From About.com.
hinduism.about.com/library/weekly/aa101902a.htm
- Manas: Karwa Chauth
Information about the observance of fasting during the festival.
www.sscnet.ucla.edu/southasia/Culture/Festivals/karwa.html
- Netfundu: Karwa Chauth
Brief description of rituals observed.
www.netfundu.com/amulkids/festival/karwachauth.htm
- TajOnline.com: About Karva Chauth Festival
Describes the festival observed by married woman to ensure wedded bliss and long life for their husbands and children.
festivals.tajonline.com/karva-chauth.php
- Aryabhatt.com: Karva Chauth
Insights into the religious aspect of the festival including fasting and puja.
www.aryabhatt.com/fast_fair_festival/Fasts/KarvaChauth.htm
- Story of Karwa Chauth
The tradition that is narrated before the breaking of the Karwa Chauth fast.
www.mathuronline.com/karwa.html
- Shree Lakshminarayan Temple: Karwa Chauth
Provides a brief description of the observance of the Karwa Chauth and highlights the feminist concern of inequity between wives and husbands.
www.lakshminarayantemple.com/karwachauth.html
- Wikipedia: Karwa Chauth
User-created article about the Hindu festival Karwa Chauth during which married women fast for the long life of their husbands.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karwa_chauth
- Karva Chauth and its Social Significance
Describes how the festival started from a concern for new brides coming to live with their in-laws. By Dr. Subhash C. Sharma.
www.geocities.com/lamberdar/karva-chauth.html
- Blessingsonthenet.com: Karva Chauth
Offers a description of the fast observed by Hindu women.
blessingsonthenet.com/temple/festival3.asp?festivalid=F0714
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