There is a custom of growing corn in small vessels. Fast is undertaken on all nine days. A king called Surath because of luxurious life and dependency on his unfaithful ministers, lost his kingdom and was exiled. There, he met a merchant named Samadhi. Both, under distress, reached a hermitage, where their query was answered by saint, that it was only by invoking Bhagwati, mother Goddess, that one could set himself free from.
Literacy gives knowledge and illiteracy depicts ignorance.
This illiteracy and ignorance are the cause for longing, affection and attachment.