Pola 2024: Date, Puja Rituals and Significance of Bail Pola

Pola or Bail Pola is being celebrated on September 2, 2024. This festival is dedicated to honour the cattles and people worship cattles with immense devotion. This day is also celebrated to mark the end of the monsoon season and the beginning of agricultural year. This day is considered as pone of the most auspicious day and people celebrate this day with great enthusiasm and fervor. This festival will be celebrated on Amavasya Tithi in the month of Bhadrapada. The festival is mainly celebrated in the states of Maharashtra.

Pola 2024: Significance

Pola or Bail Pola is one of the most significant festival which is mainly celebrated in Maharashtra. For Marathi natives, this festival holds a great religious importance. This day is considered as one of the most auspicious day to honour cattles. They celebrate this festival with great happiness and enthusiasm. On this auspicious day, they mainly worship bulls for their utmost contribution in agriculture and farming activities. Bull are considered as the sacred ones as they contribute their whole life in agriculture. This day marks the end of the monsoon season. Farmers seek blessings for the bountiful harvest. Bulls are offered grains, jaggery and they are decorated with turmeric. Women prepare special dishes at home and offer it to the Lord.

Pola 2024: Rituals

People wake up early in the morning and take a holy bath. Male members of the family give bath to their bulls and decorate them with flowers, garlands, ornaments, bells, and paint them with turmeric. Turmeric keeps all the germs away from them during this season so it is the most important ritual to perform. They are offered different types of food such as grains, lentils, raw vegetables and jaggery. Women offer special pujas and seek blessings of the Lord and seek blessings for the good health of their cattles. Marathi people celebrate this day with immense devotion and enthusiasm.