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CHOGHADIA & MUHURATCHOGADHIA:• Similarly, there are 8 parts starting with sunset of current day and ending at sunrise next day.• There are 7 types of time periods of which 4 are considered auspicious:- amrit (nectar),- shubh (luckiest),- labh (benefit)- Char or Chanchal (unstable <strong>–</strong> so so period, not bad)• and 3 are inauspicious, viz.- rog (disease),- kaal (death)- and udvegh (fear).• These seven kinds of time periods are also known as chogadiyu’n in the Indian society, or theseven moments in a day.• These good and bad moments were associated with each day, such as Monday (amrit), Tuesday(udvegh), Wednesday (rog), Thursday (shubh), Friday (labh), Saturday (kaal) and Sunday (char).• The astrologers say that works which are undertaken during auspicious moments generally havea positive result and those undertaken during inauspicious moments have a negative result.• Indians were firm in their conviction that everything in their mundane existence was determinedand controlled by the movement of the planets and stars.18
CHOGADHIA:CHOGHADIA & MUHURAT• During the tilaka or magni, that is, betrothal ceremony or a formal recognition when the partiesagreed to the wedding of the future bride and bridegroom. A grand mandapa (a tree-trunk studdedwith valuable stones and covered with green twigs, surrounded by pillars of sandal-wood andcovered with a roof) was constructed and a scarlet cloth was spread on the floor.• Wedding wreaths of flowers or festoons of mango leaves were hung before the door. The parentswould draw a square on the ground in front of the door, known as door worship (duar puja). Thesquare was also equally divided into 12 parts, indicative of the lunar months.• The drummers would sit at the four corners of the square and play the drums at the timepropounded by the astrologers.• The beat of drums was known as the chogadia. The moment was considered so propitious in thesociety that the people would start their new business, shift from old to new houses, proceed ontravel, preparing and taking medicines, sowing seeds, planting trees, taking and giving loans, etc.on that hour.• The special songs being chanted at the time of chogadiyu’n became known as "chogadia" in theIndian culture.• In ancient times, during the proclamation of the new kingdom, the singers and poets were invitedto sing songs to announce the new kingdom of the regions under the king’s sway. From thepalace or temple, a trumpet was blown at an interval of four ghadis during the day to glorify thenew kingdom.• The first sound was blown at dawn and the last at dusk. The singing of the songs or blowing of thetrumpet was also called the chogadia.• Sometimes, the drums (mrdangam) with ankle bells (gejai) were beaten at four corners of thepalace, known as char naqara or char dhol. 19
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