Monday, January 12, 2009
Rani Sati Mela
This festival is celebrated in the month of August. Rani Sati Mela in Jhunjhunu (northern Shekhawati) attracts thousands of people. They indulge in prayers to commemorate the memory of a merchant's widow who committed sati, sacrificing her life on her husband's pyre, in 1595.
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