Dhinga Gavar

Dhinga Gavar is a unique cultural festival of Jodhpur. In this festival, women worship Gavar Mata for sixteen days from Chaitra Shukla Paksha Tritiya to Vaishakh Krishna Paksha Tritiya. The most important attraction of the festival is the Ratijoga of the sixteenth day, in which the worshiping women, assuming different forms of Gods and Goddesses and carrying wooden sticks in their hands and visit Dhinga Gavar Mata for darshan in the old city and kiddingly beat the men who come in front of them with sticks. There is an old belief that unmarried men who are beaten with sticks by Tijaniya ( worshipping women) get married soon. This festival is also known as Bentamar Gawar Fair.