Savitri Vrat 2012 date

Savitri Vrat 2012 date is 21 may. Savitri was the wife of king Satyavan, who lived in one of the former Yugas, and was a model of conjugal love and devotedness.

The Hindu women, in imitation of her, on this day (1st of Jaistha), pay a kind of worship to their husbands, which they do by anointing them with powder of sandal-wood, adorning them with flowers, and presenting them with  new clothes. The performance of this ceremony, they believe, will ensure happiness and prosperity to their lords. On this occasion, Yama (the Hindu Pluto) is also worshipped by the women, who present him with offerings of rice, fruit, branches of the banyan tree, with the intent that he may long spare the lives of their husbands.