Traditional stories read during vrats and pujas.
📖 Ahoi Ashtami Vrat KathaThe complete Ahoi Ashtami katha in both its traditional versions: the merchant's wife who unknowingly killed a syahu's cub while digging earth before Diwali, lost her sons and won them back through Ahoi Mata's vrat; and the youngest daughter-in-law who took a curse upon herself, served the sacred cow, saved a garuda bird's chicks and was blessed by the mother syahu across the seven seas.अहोई अष्टमी व्रत कथा 📖 Guruvar (Brihaspativar) Vrat KathaThe Thursday-fast story of Brihaspati Dev: how a queen who hated giving alms lost a kingdom's wealth, how she and her maid, and the king in his exile, regained everything through the Thursday vrat — followed by the second katha of the Brahmin's daughter and the golden winnowing basket.बृहस्पतिवार (गुरुवार) व्रत कथा 📖 Hartalika Teej Vrat KathaThe complete Hartalika Teej katha as Lord Shiva tells it to Parvati: her long austerities in the Himalaya, Narada's proposal of Vishnu, her friend carrying her away to a forest cave, the sand Shivalinga worshipped through the night of Bhadrapada Shukla Tritiya, Shiva's boon, and Himavan's consent to the marriage.हरतालिका तीज व्रत कथा 📖 Karva Chauth Vrat KathaThe complete katha read on Karva Chauth: Veeravati and the false moon, her year of Chauth fasts and her husband's return to life, the devoted Karva who bound a crocodile and faced Yamaraj, Draupadi keeping the vrat on Krishna's counsel, and the remembrance of Savitri.करवा चौथ व्रत कथा 📖 Maha Shivaratri Vrat KathaThe complete Maha Shivaratri katha: the debt-ridden hunter Chitrabhanu, held captive on Chaturdashi where he heard Shiva's katha, who spent the night on a bilva tree above a hidden Shivalinga, worshipped unknowingly through the four prahars, spared a family of deer who kept their word, and received Mahadev's grace.महाशिवरात्रि व्रत कथा 📖 Mangalvar Vrat Katha (Tuesday Fast of Hanuman ji)The Tuesday-fast story of Hanuman ji: a childless Brahmin wife's unbroken Tuesday vrat, the radiant boy Mangal given to her by Hanuman ji, the husband's suspicion and his attempt to drown the child, and the truth revealed in a dream.मंगलवार व्रत कथा 📖 Nirjala Ekadashi (Bhimseni Ekadashi) KathaThe story of Bhima and the waterless fast — how the mightiest of the Pandavas, unable to bear hunger, was taught by Vyasa the one Ekadashi whose observance equals all twenty-four.निर्जला एकादशी (भीमसेनी) कथा 📖 Pradosh Vrat Katha (with the katha for each weekday)The main Pradosh katha — the poor brahmin widow, the exiled prince of Vidarbha and the gandharva princess Anshumati — followed by the separate katha read for each weekday's Pradosh, from Ravi Pradosh on Sunday to Shani Pradosh on Saturday.प्रदोष व्रत कथा (वार के अनुसार) 📖 Sakat Chauth (Sankat Chauth) Vrat KathaThe kathas read on Sakat Chauth, when mothers fast for their children's welfare: the boy saved in the potter's kiln, the old woman's all-embracing boon, Ganesh's circling of Shiva and Parvati, and the tale of the poor devrani and the greedy jethani.सकट चौथ व्रत कथा 📖 Santoshi Mata Vrat KathaThe complete Friday-fast story of Santoshi Mata, the Mother of Contentment — the youngest son fed on leftovers, his wife's hardship and her gur-chana vrat, the husband's return with wealth, the udyapan spoiled by tamarind, the second udyapan done rightly, and the Mother's fearsome visit recognised only by her devotee.सन्तोषी माता व्रत कथा 📖 Satyanarayan Vrat KathaThe complete five-chapter katha read at every Satyanarayan puja — how the vrat of the Lord as Truth itself lifts a poor Brahmin, a woodcutter, a merchant's family and a proud king, and why a vow made to the Lord must be kept and His prasad never slighted.सत्यनारायण व्रत कथा 📖 Shanivar Vrat Katha (Shani Dev)The Saturday-fast story of Shani Dev and Raja Vikramaditya of Ujjain: the navagrahas' quarrel, the nine metal thrones that placed Shani last, the king's seven and a half years of misfortune — the horse that vanished, the necklace swallowed by a peg, the cut-off hands and feet, the oilman's press, the song that won a princess — and Shani Dev's mercy when the king prayed that no one else be made to suffer so.शनिवार व्रत कथा 📖 Solah Somvar Vrat KathaThe complete katha of the sixteen-Mondays fast of Lord Shiva — how a temple priest's careless answer brought Parvati's curse, how apsaras taught him the vrat that cured him, and how its power passed to Parvati, Kartikeya, a Brahmin youth, a princess, her son the king, and finally his exiled queen.सोलह सोमवार व्रत कथा 📖 Somvar Vrat Katha (Monday Fast of Lord Shiva)The katha read at every Monday fast of Lord Shiva — how a childless merchant's devotion moved Parvati to plead for him, how a son was granted with only twelve years of life, and how the boy's honesty, his uncle's steadfastness and Parvati's compassion led Shiva to give him back his life.सोमवार व्रत कथा 📖 Utpanna Ekadashi — The Origin of EkadashiThe katha of how Ekadashi herself was born — the radiant shakti who emerged from Vishnu's body to slay the demon Mura, and the boon that made the eleventh tithi the most beloved of all fasts.उत्पन्ना एकादशी कथा 📖 Vat Savitri Vrat Katha (Savitri and Satyavan)The complete story of Savitri, who chose the exiled prince Satyavan knowing he had one year to live, kept a three-night fast, followed Yamaraj himself and won back her husband's life through wisdom, steadfastness and dharma — read by married women at the Vat Savitri puja beneath the banyan tree.वट सावित्री व्रत कथा