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this day all the followers including even the living acharaya sing in his praise and affirm their faith in him.
Maryada Mahotsava.
This function takes place in the first half of the Hindu month MAHA. It is also known as Magha Mahotsava. It is the day (two hundred years back) on which the historical constitution of the Order was completed This function is attended by most of the desciples of this Order at any place fixed by the acharaya, where they all meet together and give an account of their year's work and take the new programme fixed for them by the acharaya for the coming year. Not only this all the 'desciples are required to submit to the head of the order a complete diary in which is recorded the names of those people who have interviewed them and account of important events that might have taken place during the year; information regarding cloth, papers, medicine etc solicited during their wandering and the names of the house holders from whom solicited; also detailed information of the route they have taken as well as the distance from one place to another and so on. In brief all the desciples are suppose to submit to the acharaya a detailed report of their day to day activity during the year of wandering.
On this day acharaya fixes different places for different desciples regarding their movement and their
