In effect it is the
culmination of the Shivaratri festivities as also bidding adieu to the
shivering winter. To begin with, pooja is offered at home and a number of oil lamps
are lit. These lamps are taken to the river bank and floated on grass bases in
the river after the prescribed pooja. Afterwards, old Kangris (fire pots) are
filled with grass. A long rope is tied to its handle and fire is lit in it.
Then the kangri is moved round and round in circles rhythmically till the whole
kangri burns down. Then it is hurled faraway into the waters of the flowing
river. While doing so the children cryout, ‘Jateen teen, Jateen teen’; meaning
that it is a flame, it is burning.
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