Soop / Daura

(सूप / दौरा)

Literal Meaning

A flat bamboo winnowing basket

Etymology & Sanskrit Root

Hindi sup, a winnowing basket. The daura is a deeper bamboo basket.

Spiritual Insight & Context

The bamboo baskets in which Chhath offerings are carried to the water. The vratin holds the soop up while offering arghya to the Sun.

Where Soop / Daura Comes Up

Chhath Puja, the Festival of Surya Worship

The four-day festival of gratitude to Surya, the Sun God, observed with rigorous fasting and river-bank worship across Bihar, Jharkhand, Uttar Pradesh, and Nepal.

Topics

Chhath Puja Arghya Vidhi: Four Days, Water and the Sun

Chhath in order: Nahay Khay, Kharna, then standing in water to offer arghya to the setting and rising Sun, with the fast, the offerings and Chhathi Maiya.

Puja Vidhi