Corona virus has affected this food ritual in 2021.
Watch https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5TsfXY3CWEo
Bring in the rain! Parsi Custom of bringing in rains by an community effort of collecting Rice, Dal and Ghee to make Khichri.
Click here for a Aryuvedic Khichri Recipe
Click here for Vaghareli Khichri Recipe
In Navsari (a small town in the Gujarat State of India) often referred to as the “Dharam Ni Tekdi” Parsis has many of the traditional customs and practices that have over time been forgotten in other cities and town. The Ghee Khichri ritual on Bahman Mahino and Bahman Roj is one of them. Boys go from house to house, asking for rice, dal, oil, ghee and other uncooked products. The ladies pour generous portions in the collection bags. The boys are also splashed with water, which the boys have to dodge carefully.
Later this uncooked food is gathered at one location and is cooked into a collective feast.The whole endeavor is to ask the rain gods to come and bestow Mother Earth with water, after the long summer months in India.
A folk song is heard from moholla to moholla in Navsari:
GHEEE KHICHRI NO PAISO
DORIYAA NO RUPIYO
VARSAADJI TOH AAYEGA
DUMRI SHER LAAYEGA
DUMRI TAARI OAT MAA KHARA PAANINET MAA
OTTI KE POTTI
REL AAVI MOTTI
ALLAA GOCAL PAANI MOKAL
VARSAADJI NU PAANI TOH MITTHU NE MITTHU
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Another song in Gujarati song for welcoming rains after a hot summer:
“Aavre Aav Varsad,
Dhebaryo Parsaad,
Uunni uunni rotli,
ne karela nu shaak! “
Translation:
“Come oh come rain,
Manna water from the heaven,
Enjoy with us, our warm rotli,
and karela vegetables “
Song and Music:
Click here for a Aryuvedic Khichri Recipe
Click here for Vaghareli Khichri Recipe
See a NEWS Video in Gujarati by Doordarshan.
Thanks to ParsiKhabar.net for video
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