According to the Hindu Shastra (Scripture), during the ‘Dapor-Era’ before appearing on Earth, Sree Krishna sent his parents and other family members to the world of the mortals. Inhabitants of Vraja nourished voluntary religious observance to get sree krishna along with his father Bashudev and mother Debokee as the son, friend, husband and god. During the ‘Dapor-Era’ milk maids(Gopbalas) of Brindaban, first started observing the month-long Katyani Puja at the beginning of Deway sea-son (Kartik and Agrahayan months of the Bangla year) on the river bank of Jamuna making idosimilar to the ‘Devi Durga’.
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