Tag Archives: Gujarat Festivals Significance & Importance

6 Popular Holi celebration destinations

6 Popular Holi celebration destinations

India’s Holi Celebration Destinations 6 Popular Holi celebration destinations: The unusually warm winter is melting into summer and falling, as usual, in the cusp of this yearly weather transition is Holi, a heady festival of colour and laughter. If you love the sights, sound and colors of Holi, then travel to some of the most spectacular places in India where …

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Holi Festival Information For Students: Indian Festival Of Colors

Holi - Festival of Colours

Holi Festival is one of the four most popular Indian festivals observed by all without any distinction of caste, creed, status or sex. It is observed on the full moon night of Phalguna. It marks the end of winter and the advent of spring season. It is a two-day festival. On the first night bone fire is lighted in the …

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Nowruz: Iranian New Year Festival – Persian People / Zoroastrian

Nowruz: Iranian New Year Festival Information

Nowruz: Iranian New Year Festival – Nowruz or Navroz marks the beginning of the spring season and is celebrated with great fervor and enthusiasm among various Parsi communities across the world. Name: Norooz, Nawrouz, Newroz, Novruz, Nowrouz, Nawrouz, Nauryz, Nooruz, Nowruz, Navruz, Nevruz, Nowruz, Navruz, Navroz Country: Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, India, Iran, Iraq, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Pakistan, Tajikistan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan Observed …

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सूर्य उपासना का पर्व ‘मकर संक्रांति’

सूर्य उपासना का पर्व 'मकर संक्रांति'

सूर्य उपासना का पर्व: पर्व, अनुष्ठान भारत की प्राचीन उनज्जवल संस्कृति के आधार स्तम्भ हैं। हमारे मनीषियों ने इन पर्वों को विशेष रूप से ऊर्जा एवं दिव्यता का संचार करने वाला बताया है। हमारे शास्त्रों में उत्तायण और दक्षिणायन इन दो मार्गों का विशेष रूप से उल्लेख मिलता है। मकर संक्रांति के मंगल पर्व से सूर्य उत्तरायण में प्रवेश करता …

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Makar Sankranti Festival Information

Makar Sankranti

Makar Sankranti is a major harvest festival celebrated in various parts of India. According to the lunar calendar, when the sun moves from the Tropic of Cancer to the Tropic of Capricorn or from Dakshinayana to Uttarayana, in the month of Poush in mid-January, it commemorates the beginning of the harvest season and cessation of the northeast monsoon in South …

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Margashirsha Purnima, Battisi Purnima, Dattatreya Jayanti

Margashirsha Purnima / Battisi Purnima - Hindu Festival

Margashirsha Purnima: According to the Hindu scriptures, Margashirsha is regarded as a month of dedication. The full moon day falling in this month is known as Margashirsha Purnima. Moon is worshiped on the day of Margashirsha Purnima because the moon was blessed with Amrit on this day. Margashirsha Purnima is also celebrated as Dattatreya Jayanti. Lord Dattatreya was born on …

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Hanukkah Festival Information, History, Significance & Traditions

Hanukkah - Jewish Festival

Hanukkah is a Jewish festival that occurs in December (the Hebrew month Kislev), also spelled Chanukah, (also called The Festival of Lights, Feast of Dedication, Feast of the Maccabees) marks the reconsecration of the Temple of Jerusalem (Israel) after its recapture from the Syrian Greeks c.165 BC. A miracle recorded in the Talmud – the burning of a day’s supply …

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Kansa Vadh: Legends & Significance in Hindu Devotees

Kansa Vadh: Legends, Significance and Rituals

Kansa Vadh: Kansa was the maternal uncle of Lord Krishna and Balarama, and the King of Mathura (City in Uttar Pradesh, India). It was prophesied by the great saint Narada that he would be killed by Devaki’s (Kansa’s sister) eighth son. In spite of killing off all of Devaki’s sons right after birth, Lord Krishna and Balarama survived this fate …

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Diwali Festival Information For Hindus, Related Legends

Diwali / Deepawali - Festival of Lights

Diwali Festival Information: is an important and popular festival celebrated throughout the country in one form or the other. It falls on the last day of the dark half of Kartika (October – November). As a matter of fact it is a five-day long festival, but the main celebrations are on Diwali. Diwali is associated with several legends. One myth says …

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Hartalika Teej Festival Date, Significance and Related Legends

Hartalika Teej - Hindu Festival

Hartalika Teej Festival: In the literal sense the word “teej” refers to “three”. Teej falls on the third day after a full and a new moon night. The important days of Teej are – Haryali, Kajari and Hartalika. Hartalika Teej is celebrated in the Northern part of India mainly in the states of Uttar Pradesh, Bihar, Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh. The …

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