Bija Saad

Chhattisgarh is called the rice bowl. The main crop of Bastar is paddy. The Muria tribal society also grows paddy in its deep fields and Bhata. Just as people of other societies consider farming as Uÿma, do it as a ritual. He starts by taking out a muhurat for every task. Similarly, the tribal Muria society also cultivates its beloved and protector deities as witnesses. To extract seeds, people of other castes living in Bastar see the auspicious time of Akshaya Tritiya and start farming work from this day after extracting seeds. The Muria tribal society starts extracting seeds from the time the crop is ripe in the field and from the day of Charu. He makes a bundle of seed paddy and keeps it hanging in the Saja tree on the day of Charu and worships it in Hesang Jatra and hangs that paddy in Mogri Pati (Chief Meyar) and gives it to Mati Ganyata in Kohka Saad or Mati Tihar and the time is made to sow seeds in Jagarani. All this process is called Bija Saad in Dugal Parganas and Abujhmad of Narayanpur region.