Prathamashtami Celebrated With Gaiety in Odisha

Bhubaneswar (Reporters Today Bureau): Prathamashtami celebrated with gaiety across Odisha today when maternal uncles gift the family’s eldest child with new clothes and mothers pray for the well-being and long life of the firstborn son or daughter.

The role of maternal uncles is important in this festival. The maternal uncle gifts the family’s eldest child with new clothes and gifts.

The family, especially mothers, prays for the well-being and long life of the firstborn child as it’s believed that the first child becomes the flagbearer of responsibilities after the death of parents. The festival falls on Ashtami tithi of Krushna Paksha in the Odia month of Margashira.