Bhai Dooj
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Chitragupta ji’s Story: The Scribe Who Still Asks
Chitragupta ji keeps Yama Dev’s ledger of every deed, and in the Garuda Purana he still asks the Sravanas. Kayastha families worship him with pen and inkpot on Bhai Dooj.
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Yama Dwitiya katha: Yama and Yamuna, as the Bhavishya Purana tells it
On Kartika Shukla Dwitiya, the Bhavishya Purana says, Yamuna fed her brother Yama in her own house, and the tithi became known as Yama Dwitiya.
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Bhai Dooj: the story of Yama and Yamuna, the tilak and the rituals
Bhai Dooj falls on Kartika Shukla Dwitiya. Sisters apply a tilak, do an aarti and feed their brothers, as Yamuna fed Yama in the Skanda Purana.
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Bhai Dooj aarti: Yamuna aarti lyrics with meaning
The Yamuna aarti “Jai Kalindi, Haripriya jai” from the Gita Press Aarti-Sangrah, in Hindi and Roman letters with plain meanings, and how it is sung on Bhai Dooj.