Garba

We have seen many threads regarding how dusshera / navratri is celebrated by Bengalis and South Indians.
Would love to know
1. Meaning of Garba / Dandiya.
2. What is the significance of the dance during Navratri?
3. Are there different types of Garba?
4. What is in the Earthen Pot?
5. Can anyone post Traditional Garba music?
Thank you
Jai Mata Di

me to...even i want to know all this 😊
Edited by Yukthi - 11 years ago

Ok guys m not gujju but wil try to answer some. Ok garba means the earthern pot in which the akhand diya means the lamp is placd which burns continuously for 10 days. The reason for placing garba is like during ganesha chaturthi peoples bring ganesha idol and worship like that Garba is considered as mata ji's significance and is placd in every house during navratri. And on dashera day we do visarjan of garba just like idols but here we float garbas in water and see how long it floats and then it sinks. Even i have heard that small girls who are kumaris go to every1s house with little garba with them and sing garbas and peoples offer them sweets (just like in halloween how childrens go house to house and get sweets but here they dont do any fancy dress they just take garba means that earthern pot and sing garba.) now about singing garba means the mata jis prayers which are sung to invite mataji to our house.   Now about dandiya and garba the thing is whoever place garba in their house has to be awake the whole night just like we do in ganesha chaturthi so in order to spent the whole night awake people startd playing garba and dandiya and like that trend developd to play in pandals. Hope it helps.

i too wanna knw... 😊 plz koi to batao...

wow thank u foram .. 🤗Always wondered what was in the earthern pot..
So the garba is to do jagaran what a wonderful way to do it. Music and dance ..
Any good garba songs ??
Non filmy please thank u

thanks foru 🤗
me to always wondered what's in the pot...
Edited by Yukthi - 11 years ago

Thanks foram for the info... 🤗

😆 foru ko itne saare hugs mil rahen hain...sharma rahin hain!!

by the way sukhi , what's your mother tongue??

Maine first day of navratri kaha tha ki me pics and garba share karungi par mera pc kharab ho gaya. But tomorow i'l try somehow frm some where to share. I can suggest some songs but cant post the link: 1)pankhida tu udi jaje paavagadh re. And many more as you cn find on news chanels showing live garba or you can tune to etv gujarati chanel where they show live dandiyaras from surat. Its the same pandal where our mohitwa has gone as celebrity guest.

@ Yukhti... m bengali 😊