Fasting women spend the whole day singing fag songs while worshipping Goddess Gauradevi with biruda (a mixture of five different kinds of grains). The dubdhago (a consecrated sacred thread) offered to Gauradevi yesterday is also worn by women today. Just as men who wear the sacred thread (janai) observe the ritual, women here wear the consecrated dubdhago.

From the Gauraghar, the Gaura is decorated and taken to the Gaurakhala. In the same khala, women worship it collectively while singing Atthawali. The origin of Gaura, marriage to Maheshwar, and other events are narrated by the women of the fast through the phag. After the fasting worships the Gaura, the Biruda, which is the main offering, is worshipped on the head, wishing for the long life of their husbands, children, and relatives. Men play games based on historical culture, including Thadokhel and Dhusko Dhamari. 

Acharya Bishnu Dutta Bhatta, a cultural expert, said that it is believed that women observe fasts and worship for their unwavering good fortune, prosperity, children and family happiness and peace. The people of the Far West celebrate this festival with more importance than Dashain. Therefore, those who have gone abroad also return home in Gaura. It is also customary for married girls to come to their families in Gaura. 

Meanwhile, on the occasion of Gaura Parba, a public holiday has been declared in the Sudurpaschim Province on Sunday and Monday. The government has declared a public holiday on Sunday, August 31, and the provincial government has declared a holiday on Monday, September 01, for Gaura Parba, resulting in a two-day public holiday in the Sudurpaschim Province. 

Gaur Parba has contributed to the preservation and promotion of indigenous culture: President Poudel

President Ram Chandra Poudel has wished that the Gaura Parba festival will further contribute to the preservation and promotion of Nepali indigenous culture and inspire all Nepalis to enhance mutual understanding, goodwill, sustainable peace and brotherhood.

 While delivering a message of greetings on the occasion of Gaura Parba, 2082, President Poudel has mentioned that such festivals will help strengthen national unity by connecting families and society by promoting unity in diversity, social and cultural solidarity and tolerance. He has expressed his best wishes for happiness, peace and prosperity to all Nepali sisters and brothers at home and abroad on the auspicious occasion of Gaura Parba. 

President Poudel has recalled that this festival, which is celebrated exclusively in the western region of Nepal from the fifth day of Bhadra Shukla to the eighth day of Ashtami every year, has played an important role in strengthening geographical, religious, cultural faith and mutual goodwill.