Mulam

Varshi Tapa

Varshi Tapa or Akshay Tritiya Tapa

It is celebrated as ‘Parana diwas’, the day Adinath Bhagwan, the primary Jainism Tirthankara, referred to as Rishabhdev, busts his quick when a year-long penance. Nowadays, Jainist followers who observe the year-long different-day temperance, or Varsi-tap, finish their penance by doing ‘Parana’, breaking quickly with sugarcane juice.

Significance :

  • This pageant commemorates Rishabhdev, the primary religion of Tirthankara, UN agency fasted for a complete thirteen months and thirteen days.
  • His abstinence came to an endwise on the third day of the sunshine period of the religious calendar’s Vaishakh month.