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| Celebrating Sama Chakeba |
- This festival is also celebrated by the women mainly in Mithila
- It is during the winter season that the birds from the Himalayas migrate towards the plains
- With the advent of these colorful birds, celebration of sama–chakeva is done
- mithilanchal dedicates this festival to the celebration of the brother-sister relationship
- It represents the tradition of this land as well as the art of making idols
- This festival starts with the welcoming of the pair of birds sama-chakeva
- Girls make clay idols of various birds and decorate them in their own traditional ways
- Various rituals are performed and the festival joyfully ended with the ‘vidai’ of sama and with a wish that these birds return to this land the next year
- Shamb and shama were the son and daughter of Shri Krishna
- On false information (Chugli), Krishna becomes angry with her daughter and her husband and cursed them to become a Chakbi and Chakba who lived together in the daytime and get separated in the night
Celebrating Sama Chakeba - Shamb, the brother of Sama pleased Krishna by his penance and requested Krishna to take back the curse
- Krishna took back his curse and Sama and her husband came into their original human form
- The person who had given wrong information was suitably punished
- So, this is also a festival dealing with the love of brother for his sister
- Ladies on this occasion pray for the prosperity and long life of their brothers
Celebrating Sama Chakeba - This sama puja starts on the seventh day after the new moon and ends on the full moon in the month of Kartik i.e. November
- Brothers on this occasion give gifts
- Women gather in the field in the late evening and sing songs related to the festival
- They burn the Chugla, symbol of societal miscreant is burned every evening
- On the final day of the festival, sisters keep flat rice, gur, curd in earthen pots in the night and offer it to their brothers in the morning
