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RATHA YATRA 2023

It’s today the June twentieth! The Ratha Yatra of Puri, also rendered as the Ratha Jatra (Odia: ରଥଯାତ୍ରା) is considered the oldest and largest Hindu chariot festival celebrated annually, on the bright half of the lunar month of Ashadh (June-July). The festival is held at the city of Puri in the state of Odisha, IndiaContinue reading “RATHA YATRA 2023”

RAJA FESTIVAL

Originally posted on B +Ve!!:
Sand art by Sudarsan Pattnaik Raja (Odia: ରଜ) or Raja Parba (Odia: ରଜ ପର୍ବ) or Mithuna Sankranti is a three-day-long festival of womanhood celebrated in Odisha, India. The second day of the festival signifies beginning of the solar month of Mithuna from, which the season of rains starts. It is…

HAPPY KARTIK PURNIMA

Kartika is the eighth lunar month in the Hindu calendar. The Purnima day that falls during the month of Kartika is known as Kartik Purnima. The celebrations of Kartik Purnima begin on the day of Prabodhini Ekadashi which is also referred to as  Devuthanna Ekadashi.  As Ekadashi is the eleventh day and Purnima is theContinue reading “HAPPY KARTIK PURNIMA”

BHAI DOOJ

Originally posted on B +Ve!!:
Bhai Dooj, Bhaubeej, Bhai Tika, Bhai Phonta is a festival celebrated by Hindus on the second lunar day of Shukla Paksha (bright fortnight) in the Vikram Samvat Hindu calendar or of Shalivahan Shaka calendar month of Kartika. It is celebrated during the Diwali or Tihar festival and Holi festival. The…

GOVARDHAN PUJA

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Govardhan Puja as it is also known, as a Nature worship Hindu festival in which devotees Workship Mountains like Govardhan parvat and prepare and offer a large variety of vegetarian food to Bhagwan (God) Shri Krishna as a mark of gratitude. For Vaishnavas, this day commemorates the incident in the…

🪔 DEEPAVALI 🪔

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Diwali (Deepavali or Divali) is the Indian festival of lights, usually lasting five days and celebrated during the Hindu Lunisolar month Kartika (between mid-October and mid-November). One of the most popular festivals of Hinduism, Diwali symbolizes the spiritual “victory of light over darkness, good over evil, and knowledge over ignorance”.…

🕉️ NAVRATRI – 2022 🕉️

Originally posted on INNER THOUGHTS:
MAY THIS NAVRATRI BESTOWS US ALL PEACE & PROSPERITY MENTION OF MAA DURGA IN VEDIC TEXTS JAI MAA DURGE JI Maa Durga has been extensively mentioned in Vedic Texts (In Rigveda & Atharvaveda)? Maa Durge too finds mention in TAITTIRIYA ARANYAKA. Whereas the name of Maa Kali finds place in…

🌾 HAPPY ONAM 🌾

Onam is a festival celebrated by Malayalis in Kerala and at all other part of the world to mark the homecoming of the Great King Mahabali. It is also said to mark the harvest season for Kerala. The festival lasts for ten days and is celebrated with a great splendour. Feasts, colourful masks, performances andContinue reading “🌾 HAPPY ONAM 🌾”

NUAKHAI

Nuakhai or Navakhai is an agricultural festival mainly observed by people of Western Odisha and Southern Chhattisgarh in India. Nuakhai is observed to welcome the new rice of the season. According to the calendar it is observed on panchami tithi (the fifth day) of the lunar fortnight of the month of Bhadrapada or Bhadraba (August–September),Continue reading “NUAKHAI”