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Traditional stone war -\u2018Bagwal\u2019 to be played on Aug 12 at Devidhura<\/p>\n
B.D.Kasniyal<\/p>\n
Pithoragarh, Aug 11<\/p>\n
\u201cBagwal\u201d, a stone war, played traditionally\u00a0on the occasion of \u2018Raksha Bandhan\u2019 festival every year at Barahi Devi temple of Devidhura in Champawat district of Uttarakhand state from time immemorial, will be played on August 12, this year.<\/p>\n
“Due to restriction by court, the \u2018Bagwal\u2019 wil be played with\u00a0 fruits and flowers in place of stones, as used to be played earlier,” said Kriti Ballabh Joshi, main priest of Barahi temple.<\/p>\n
The \u2018Bagwa\u2019l is played between four traditional clans of local landlords, \u2018Lamgaria\u2019, \u2018Chamyal\u2019, \u2018Balig\u2019 and \u2018Gaharwal\u2019 and is said to have began in\u00a0ancient times when the goddess \u2018Barahi\u2019 used to take human sacrifice to please herself. As the human sacrifice used to be from each household of area by turn, a widow of \u2018Chamyal\u2019 clan, who had only a son as her heir, prayed to the goddess to save her son from being sacrificed at her altar. According to locals, the goddess agreed and since then did not take accept human sacrifice but instead demanded blood equal to that in a human body. So the villagers played \u2018Bagwal\u2019, a stone war, hitting each other to shed blood ,” said B.C. Joshi, \u2018Peethacharya\u2019 of the temple.<\/p>\n
Stone war known as ‘Bagwal’ being played out between four traditional groups at Brahi devi temple at Devidhura in Champawat district of Uttarakhand.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
The method of worshiping goddess \u2018Barahi\u2019, by the way of \u2018Bagwal\u2019 is also unique. The programmes begin on \u2018Shrawan Shukla Ekadasi\u2019 when\u00a0 members of all four clans of landlords along with 7 other \u2018Thokdars\u2019, gather at the temple to worship the palanquin( sangi ) of goddess together. \u00a0The \u2018Dyokas\u2019 or volunteers assigned by each clan to take part in the \u2018Bagwal\u2019 thereafter maintain personal purity for the day of \u2018Bagal\u2019 by not taking meals from anyone. “On the day of \u2018Purnamashi\u2019 ( full moon)\u00a0 all the volunteers meet under guidance of chief priest of the temple and worship the idol of deity put in closed doors of temple with all vedic rituals. After taking \u2018prasad\u2019 the volunteers named \u2018Dyokas\u2019, return to their homes for coming back with\u00a0 full preparation to\u00a0 take part in battle\u00a0to be held \u00a0at Kholi Khand ground,” said Rajendra Prasad Gehtori, a researcher of the subject.<\/p>\n
According to Gehtori, the volunteers from all four clans take five \u2018Parikramas\u2019 (rounds) of Barahi temple before rushing to the ground.”The battle starts with blowing of couch by priest and begins without\u00a0taking cover of shields ( made of Bambo grass to save one from stones ). The volunteers take help of shields only when the stone war gets full momentum ,” Gehtori said.<\/p>\n
As the stone war starts, one of the priest starts worshiping goddess \u2018Barahi\u2019 at the temple with vedic rituals and after getting intution from goddess that the blood equal to that of in one man’s body has been shed in the \u2018Bagwal\u2019, moves to the ground. “He directly reaches in between the fighting groups and stops the\u00a0stone throwing war. Interestingly, no priests till date has been injured by stones,\u201d said Gehtori.<\/p>\n
According to the villagers the wounds incurred in the battle are treated by sting grass or \u2018Bicchu ghas\u2019, a local herb instead of any medicine.<\/p>\n
This year, Uttarakhand Chief Minister and local MLA, Pushakar Singh Dhami will be chief guest of the programme.<\/p>\n
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Brahi devi temple at Devidhura in Champawat district of Uttarakhand.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
According to Hindu\u00a0 tradition \u2018Barah\u2019 (the boar), is the 3rd incarnation of Lord Vishnu, who took this incarnation to recover goddess earth after a devil \u2018Hiranakshya\u2019, submerged the earth. The \u2018Baraha\u2019 incarnation of Lord Vishnu rescued the earth from water and made it worth living.” \u2018Barahi\u2019, according to Hindu mythology is better half of \u2018Baraha\u2019 and worshiped as \u2018Vajra Barahi\u2019 as a \u2018Tantrik\u2019 form of \u2018Shakti\u2019,” said the Ppeethacharya.<\/p>\n
According to an article written by a researcher, Marie LecomteTilouine, in the book, ‘Himalaya, past and present ‘ Volume\u00a0 IV, Newar community of Kathmandu valley of Nepal\u00a0\u00a0have developed a cult of feminine\u00a0form of \u2018Baraha\u2019 as goddess \u2018Barahi\u2019, in the valley area, and the writer has quoted the neighbouring villagers of \u2018Vajra Barahi\u2019 temple\u00a0 in that area, saying that the \u2018Vajracharya\u2019 priest of temple at Chhpagaon\u00a0 temple of \u2018Barahi\u2019 offer human sacrifice to the deity, once in seven years, on the occasion of Desain festival celebrated on \u2018Vijayadashami\u2019 day in Nepal.<\/p>\n
“It seems the tradition of worshiping goddess \u2018Barahi\u2019 as a form of \u2018Shakti\u2019, had reached Kumaon region from Nepal, ” claimed \u00a0Rajendra Gehtori, a researcher on the subject.<\/p>\n
Traditional stone war -\u2018Bagwal\u2019 to be played on Aug 12 at Devidhura B.D.Kasniyal Pithoragarh, Aug 11 \u201cBagwal\u201d, a stone war, played traditionally\u00a0on the occasion of \u2018Raksha Bandhan\u2019 festival every year at Barahi Devi temple of Devidhura in Champawat district of Uttarakhand state from time immemorial, will be played on August 12, this year. “Due to …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":2259,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[92,91,56,35,39,59],"tags":[599,598,156,600,337,370],"class_list":["post-2258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-featured","category-national","category-politics","category-sports","category-tourism","category-uttarakhand","tag-bagwal","tag-brahi-devi","tag-champawat","tag-devidhura-temple","tag-kumoan","tag-uttarakhand-chief-minister-pushkar-singh-dhami"],"yoast_head":"\n
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