Here is your short paragraph on Minjar-Ka-Mela:

This is a rain festival of Himachal Pradesh falls every year in the Bikrami month of Shravan.

The celebration lasts for a weak in Chamba, a town in Himachal Pradesh that is associated with the worship of rain and land.

As the festival begins and concludes on a Sunday, it might be possibly be connected with Sun worship which is still prevalent in some of the interior regions.

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Some believe that it is celebrated to worship Varuna—the God of water. Everyone in Chamba wears a silken tassel with stalks of Minjar, the maize plant, as a symbol of their prayers for good harvest.

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