VIVAH PANCHAMI

                    Vivah panchami

 Vivah panchami is the reminisce of weddings of Lord Rama and Goddess Sita. Vivah Panchmi is celebrated on the fifth day of Sukla Paksha on the month of “Mangsir”. This day is considered as the auspicious day for the Hindu, residing in the Mithila region of Nepal and India, and celebrated as the wedding ceremony of Lord Rama and Goddess Sita. Vivah panchami is observed in Janakpur every year to mark the occasion. This festival ties the people of Nepal and India with a single thread. Janakpur and Ayodhya cities are an inseparable link to this glorious story.


King Janak, the father of Goddess Sita, purposed the special examination to qualify for the marriage of his daughter Goddess Sita. His proposal was that Sita will marry that man, who will able to break the sacred bow. For this, King Janak organized the “Sita ka swayamber” and he invited almost all the potential king and princes of the different kingdom. Among, all the participants, Lord Rama and Lord Ravan, the king of Lankha were the center of attraction. Almost, all the participants except lord Rama and Ravan, failed to carry the bow even they failed to lift it. Ravan tried his best but he also failed to carry the bow. It was Lord Rama, who successfully carried the bow and even broken the bow into three-piece and qualified the proposal of King Janak. After this, the marriage of Goddess Sita commenced with Lord Rama, and for the reminisce of the same scared date, the vivah panchmi is celebrating.

Vivah Panchami is also seen as a strong tradition, the religious and cultural bond between Nepal and India. For the celebration of this auspicious day, thousands of people and devotees come to Janakpurdham from all over the world, though most of them are from Nepal and India. As inception, how the conjugal tie happened between the lord Rama and goddess Sita, the same scared function and procedure are followed now in the vivha Panchami to reminisce the wedding. The Procession (Barati) use to come from the Ayodhya, the birthplace of Lord Rama, to the Janakpurdham to attend the marriage ceremony with lots of offering as originally it happened. For the weeklong, vivha Panchami is celebrated in which various rituals of Rama-Sita marriages are performed enthusiastically with scared and religious fervor. vibha Panchami is celebrated by the devotees to immortalize the conjugal ceremony of Lord Rama and goddess Sita. The devotee's participant on all ritual enthusiastically. During Vivah panchi, the most waited ceremony is, “Dhanush Yagya-the bow breaking ceremony”, which use to organized at the “Baraheega Maidan” of Janakpurdham, and the “swaymbar” and other marriage functions, use to organize in the ground of Janaki temple.

 During the Vivah Panchi, Janaki temple is decorated as the bride with the lamps, electrical light, and flowers. In this date, only the idol of Goddess and Lord Rama, bring outside the temple and decorated with the new clothes and jewelry as the bride and groom. To make the festival more meta event, lots of cultural programs use to organize and even the Ramleela performance performed which epitomes how the scared wedding ceremony of Goddess Sita and Lord Rama performed.  This year, Vibha panchami is celebrating on December 1st and to celebrate this auspicious festival, all the stockholder initiated preparation and anyone can infer the ambit of Vivha panchmi from now in the Janakpurdham.