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- Palki Festival is 1000 years old tradition of Maharashtra,which has been followed by warkaries-worshipers of Vithoba. (also known as Vitthal-a form of Lord krishna)
- Palkhi Festival, which lasts for 22 days, starts in the month of Jyeshth (June). Every year on the eleventh day of the first half of the month of Ashadh, the Palkhi reaches Pandharpur. Every saint, right from Sant Jyaneshwar to Sant Tukaram was following the wari tradition.
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- Varkari wear tulasi-mala, a rosary made from Ocimum tenuiflorum. They are lacto-vegetarians and follow a sattvic diet. Furthermore, like many other Vaishnava sects, they refrain from using onion and garlic in their cooking. Sect members also refrain from intoxicating substances such as alcohol.
- Pilgrims carry litters of the saints from their places of samadhi (enlightenment or "spiritual birth").
- The tradition of carrying thepaduka (sandals) of the sants in a litter was started by the youngest son of Tukaram, Narayan Maharaj, in 1685.
- Further changes were brought to the pilgrimage by descendants of Tukaram in the 1820s and by Haibatravbaba, a courtier of theScindias who was also a devotee of Dnyaneshwar.
(compiled from Wikipedia)
Jai Panduranga Vitthala!
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