Karwa Chauth 2025: Today the festival of Karva Chauth is being celebrated across the country. Every year on Kartik Krishna Chaturthi, the brides do sixteen adornments and keep a waterless fast for the long life of their husbands.
This festival has great recognition in North India. But do you know that there is a village where neither married women do Solah Shringar on Karva Chauth. Nor does she keep a waterless fast for her husband’s long life. A painful incident years old is believed to be the reason for this.
This is the story of Ramnagala village located in Naujheel area of Mathura district. Hundreds of years ago, a Brahmin youth of Ramnagala village was returning via Surir after seeing off his newly married wife from her in-laws house located across the Yamuna. The young man was riding on his buggy, which was being pulled by a buffalo. On the way, some people of Surir started a dispute by claiming that buffalo as their own. Unfortunately, that young man from Ramnagala was killed in a fight.
The newly married woman was devastated after seeing her husband’s death in front of her eyes. Then cursing the people of this area, the woman said that just as I am committing sati with my husband’s dead body, in the same way none of your women will be able to remain well dressed. No woman will be able to do sixteen adornments.
Fear of Sati’s curse among married women
Call it the curse of Sati or the wrath of a wife mourning the death of her husband. After this incident, the havoc that spread over the town started swallowing the young men. All the women became widows. It seemed as if trouble had struck the area. Then the elders considered it to be the effect of Sati’s anger and sought forgiveness by establishing a temple of her there.
Sati Mata temple in Surir town of Mathura
What do the people of the area say?
Here, an elderly woman, Sunhari Devi, told that the series of unnatural deaths stopped due to the worship of Sati Mata, but now the married women do not keep the fast of Karva Chauth for the safety of their married couples. Nor is there a tradition of giving any gift to daughters on Karva Chauth.
There are beliefs that since that incident, no married woman in hundreds of families of this area neither dresses up nor keeps fast on Karva Chauth for the long life of her husband. This tradition, which has been going on for hundreds of years, is being carried on from generation to generation. No married woman is ready to take the initiative to free herself from this curse. Here every married woman seems to fear the curse of Sati.
A local elderly woman told that due to the curse of Sati Maiya, no woman in this town observes the fast of Karva Chauth. Any woman who observes Karva Chauth fast here, her husband dies suddenly.
Another elderly woman of this area, Bhagwati, told that Sati Maiyya had appeared here after the death of her husband. Now no woman celebrates Karva Chauth here. Now on the day Sati Maiya wishes, the married couples will celebrate Karva Chauth here. The woman also told that the people of Ramnagala no longer even drink the water of this town.
Another local resident Gangadhar Singh also repeated this painful incident that happened 200-250 years ago. He told that there is a curse of Sati in this area that no woman here will neither wear Solah Shringar nor observe the fast of Karva Chauth. In some houses, people have now started fasting on Ahoi Ashtami. Earlier even that was not kept here.