The Jain community is the holy festival Rohini vrat, which is also celebrated with great enthusiasm by people of other religions. Women keep this fast for the longevity of their husbands.
It is believed that worshiping Goddess Rohini Devi removes all the sufferings and impoverishment of life. By the way, this fast comes every month, because Rohini is also a constellation among the 27 constellations in space.
Fast story
In a city called Champapuri, a king Madhava lived with his queen Lakshmipati, 7 sons, and a daughter Rohini. Once the king asked the nematologist, with whom would his daughter be married? On this, the gyani said that your daughter will be married to Ashok, the prince of Hastinapura.
Listening to Gyani, the king organized Rohini’s Swayamvara and in which Rohini chose Prince Ashoka as her husband and married her. Once Ashok went with his family to meet Muniraj named Sricharan in the forest of Hastinapur.
He told Muniraj that his wife remains very calm, what is the reason for this? On this, Muniraj told that in ancient times there lived a king named Vastupala in Hastinapur city and had a friend named Dhanamitra. A girl was born in Dhanamitra’s house, whose body always smelled bad. Therefore, it was named Durgandha. Dhanamitra was always worried about his daughter.
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One day Amritsen Muniraj came to his city. Dhanamitra went to Muniraj with his daughter and asked about her daughter’s future. Muniraj told that King Bhupal ruled in a city near Mount Girnar. His wife was Sindhumati who was very proud of her beauty.
Once the king-queen went out to visit the forest, then the king saw Muniraj there and asked his wife to arrange for Muniraj’s food. On this Sindhumati agreed to obey her husband but was very angry in the mind and in anger she served Muniraja in bitter tumbika food, which Muniraj died after eating.
When the king came to know about this, he expelled the queen from the palace. Due to this sin, the queen’s leprosy was created and the queen, after facing a lot of anguish, got to death. Rani Sindhumati came to hell posthumously and suffered a lot and was born in an animal vagina and then born in your house as a badass girl.
Hearing the whole thing of Muniraj, Dhanamitra asked that any solution should be given to overcome this Patak. Then Muniraj told that observance of Rohini fast including observance i.e. keep Rohini Devi fast on Rohini Nakshatra of every month and by abandoning diet, spend time in religion, worship and charity, but this fast only for 5 years and 5 months. Do it
Dhanamitra and her daughter Durgandha duly fasted and after death, she reached heaven and later became the goddess and became the queen Rohini of Prince Ashoka.