The festival of Rakshabandhan falls on the full moon day of the month of Shravan. It is celebrated as a symbol of love between a brother and a sister. On the day of Rakshabandhan, a sister ties rakhi on the wrist of her brother. She prays for his well-being. The brother promises to protect his sister. He also gives a gift to her.
This festival unites people of all castes and religions. It is said that Queen Karnavati of Chittor sent a rakhi to the Mughal king Humayun. Humayun, on receiving the rakhi, marched with his army to protect Chittor. Rakshabandhan is also celebrated as Nariyali Poornima. Fishermen worship the sea on this day. They pray to the God of the Seas. They sing and dance the whole evening.
Raksha Bandhan, also Rakshabandhan, is a popular, traditionally Hindu, annual rite, or ceremony, which is central to a festival of the same name, celebrated in India, Nepal and other parts of the Indian subcontinent, and among people around the world influenced by Hindu culture. On this day, sisters of all ages tie a talisman, or amulet, called the rakhi, around the wrists of their brothers, symbolically protecting them, receiving a gift in return, and traditionally investing the brothers with a share of the responsibility of their potential care.
Raksha Bandhan is observed on the last day of the Hindu lunar calendar month of Shraavana, which typically falls in August. The expression "Raksha Bandhan," Sanskrit, literally, "the bond of protection, obligation, or care," is now principally applied to this ritual. Until the mid-20th-century, the expression was more commonly applied to a similar ritual, also held on the same day, with precedence in ancient Hindu texts, in which a domestic priest ties amulets, charms, or threads on the wrists of his patrons, or changes their sacred thread, and receives gifts of money; in some places, this is still the case. In contrast, the sister-brother festival, with origins in folk culture, had names which varied with location, with some rendered as Saluno, Silono, and Rakri. A ritual associated with Saluno included the sisters placing shoots of barley behind the ears of their brothers.
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