What a Chhath wish is about
Four days, a nirjala fast of around thirty-six hours without water, and offerings made standing in a river at sunset and again at sunrise. It is kept most in the Tarai — Janakpur, Siraha, Saptari — and the person you are messaging is very likely either fasting or supporting somebody who is. That shapes the wish: not celebration but endurance and respect, and often addressed to a parbaitin, the woman keeping the fast, rather than to a household.
Read the full account of the festival on Chhath Puja, next on November 12, 2026.
Chhath wishes to send
2 wishes · नेपाली · English
Every line below is copyable — take one and send it however you like. Whoever in your family is keeping the fast, and the household holding it up.
- 01
सूर्यदेवको आशीर्वाद तपाईं र परिवारमा रहोस्।
नेपाली
May the rising sun bring you and yours strength.
English
- 02
घाटको उज्यालो र व्रतको फल तपाईंलाई प्राप्त होस्।
नेपाली
Light on the water, and everything the fast asks for.
English
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