The spraying of colored waters recalls the love sport of the Gopikaas and Lord Krishna. Holi is the Festival which brings people of all ages and community together and is a perfect example of universal brotherhood and also fun and frolic. Gangaur is the most common and local festival of Rajasthan and it falls on the second day of Holi and is celebrated for 18 days. This festival is dedicated to Goddess Gauri and unmarried girls pray to her to bless them with good husbands and married women pray for happy and long married life and welfare of their husbands. In Rajasthan the whole environment is very colourful.
Women dress in colourful clothes and apply mehendi on their hands and feet.
On all the days women go to the temple carrying brass and earthen pots on their heads and singing Gangaur songs. They also keep fast and have one meal a day. On the last 10 days of the festival Unmarried girls go around singing and carrying a Ghudlia on their heads. A Ghudlia is an earthen pot with a lamp lit inside it and with a window to let the light through. People give them food,presents,money etc which contribute to a feast on the final day on the festival.