Celebrated on the third day of the month of August, Teej unites the sisters by wishing for the long life of their brothers and nephews.
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Most of them are dressed in traditional clothes with Angia and Ghagharia. Some are also wearing dhoti and blouse. Everyone is enjoying the ping (soon dola) singing songs. The women sitting next to Ping are also singing the song that is sung in Saun's dola.
The Rana Tharu community living only in Kailali and Kanchanpur celebrated Teej with pomp on Sunday. They ended Teej on Sunday by playing ping pong for two weeks. The Rana Tharu community celebrates Teej on the day of Saturn Shukla Tritiya. Saun dola is kept 15 days before Teej. Usually Saun Dola is celebrated by tying sal bales and other wood with babio or malu rope. Women play ping pong every evening in the same dola. They also sing different songs.
'This festival is celebrated for the longevity of brothers and nephews, we also sing songs like that,' said Kailashu Rana of Bhimdatta municipality-16 Naya Katan, 'This Teej is also a way to kill fatigue after planting and meet sisters.' According to her, women fast on the day of Teej. Different types of food dishes are prepared. In the afternoon, siru (a type of grass) is knotted. Married women tie 7 knots and unmarried women tie 5 knots. The bundled grass is cut with silver coins. Then everyone rejoices in Ping once.
In the evening, women throw food dishes and bundled grass into a nearby river or stream. Then they return home and have dinner. Kismati Rana said, "Our Teej is one month earlier than the Teej celebrated by others. We celebrate it for one month." In the past, it was customary to celebrate Teej by rejoicing in the dola of Saun for a month, but now it is celebrated only for 10/15 days. There are also very few people who play in Saunko Dola. Kismati said, ``There are no leisure activities like before, not everyone celebrates,'' said Kismati. Dola of Saun is started by worshiping Kamila. Wood and babio or malu rope are also used in that. "But now there is no wood, even babio and malu pine have left in the forest," said Chetram Rana, the leader of the Rana Tharu community, "In the past, we used to bring wood from house to house, all the young people used to go to the forest for rope, and it took two to four days to make a rope." After that, Babio and Malu are also not found in the forest. Rana has made a dola out of an iron pipe. He also brought the rope from the market. They have also brought plastic flowers from the market to decorate the dola. Rana said, "Now there is no playing in Dola like before, there is no material either. It is necessary to continue it to reach the new generation."
