Ranchi, Jharkhand | June | Saturday | 04, 2016 :: Marriaged women performed rituals on a sacred banyan tree on the occasion of Vat Savitri Puja in Ranchi on Saturday.
Women pray for the prosperity and longevity of their husbands by tying threads around a banyan tree or wa?, which is called “pipal puja”, on this day. It honours Savitri, the legendary wife who rescued her husband’s soul from the ruler of the departed, Yama.