Jhulan Yatra 2012 date

Jhulan Yatra 2012 date in August. Jhulan Yatra is celebrated, to commemorate the frolics of Krishna and Radha. Many Hindus keep this feast only for five nights, beginning on the eleventh day of the moon; and others for three nights, commencing on the thirteenth.Jhulan Yatra, or the swing festival, is observed in the Shravan month and begins on the Pavitra Ekadasi and is generally observed for 5 days.

The ceremonies gone through are much the same as those of the Dola Yatra, described above; only that no phag (red powder) is used as on that occasion, and that the god and his mistress have daily a new change of raiment given them as long as the festival lasts. Krishna and Radha are placed in a chair suspended from the ceiling, and swung first by the proprietor of the house, and afterwards by the Brahman guests at pleasure. About 10 o'clock the images are worshipped in the usual way, and offerings of fruits, sweetmeats, cloth presented. At this time a great number of persons attend outside, and make a horrid discord with barbarous instruments of music, connecting the whole with every kind of indecency.

At noon, the person at whose house the festival is held, generally gives a grand entertainment to Brahmans and others. After eating, dances and dramatic exhibitions of the most indelicate and obscene kind take place, and love-songs in honour of Krishna and Radha are sung, The festivities are thus continued till the crowd retire at day-light.