Punyipukur Vrata (Bengali: পুণ্যিপুকুর ব্রত) is an annual monthwide Hindu ritual or vrata (religious vow), mainly observed in the Bengali Hindu community in West Bengal and Bangladesh. == Background == In the Bengali Hindu houses of rural Bengal, unmarried girls aged five to nine years observe this fast for a month from the Sankranti of the month of Chaitra to the last day (Sankranti) of the month of Baisakh (mid-march to mid-April).
Punyipukur Vrata (Bengali: পুণ্যিপুকুর ব্রত) is an annual monthwide Hindu ritual or vrata (religious vow), mainly observed in the Bengali Hindu community in West Bengal and Bangladesh. == Background == In the Bengali Hindu houses of rural Bengal, unmarried girls aged five to nine years observe this fast for a month from the Sankranti of the month of Chaitra to the last day (Sankranti) of the month of Baisakh (mid-march to mid-April).
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