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Chetri Chandra (Sindhi: چيتي چند, Moon of Chaitra) is a festival that marks the beginning of the Lunar Hindu New Year for Sindhi Hindus. [3] [8] The date of the festival is based on the lunar cycle of the lunisolar Hindu calendar, falling on the first day of the year, in the Sindhi month of Chet (). [3]
In Sindh the beginning of the New Year was considered Cheti Chand . Some businessmen open new account books on Cheti Chand; many however, do that on the eve of Diwali . On the full moon, people used to go to a river or lake and offer 'Akho' with a pinch of rice mixed with milk and flour.
Sindhi people celebrate the day as Cheti Chand, it is observed as the emergence of the day of Jhulelal. Prayers are offered to Jhulelal, and the festival is celebrated by making delicacies like tahiri (sweet rice) and sai bhaji. [3] However, this is not the universal new year for all Hindus.
Calendar Date Festival name Region / Communities / Religions [3]; Solar: 1 Vaisakh (13/14 April) Vaisakhi: Punjab, Chandigarh, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu, and parts of Delhi ...
In 1007 Vikram Samvat (950 CE), the day of Cheti Chand in Chaitra, Jhulelal was born to a local Hindu family of Lohana caste. [2] [7] [8] It was not long before Amir Mirkshah caught wind of rumors that the populace had begun to worship a local child as an incarnate deity; alarmed by this un-Islamic activity, the Amir sent his ministers to ...
Gudi Padwa, Cheti Chand, Yugadi, Navreh (Chandramana Nava Varsha) Traditional Gudhi: First Day of waxing moon of Chaitra (Hindu calendar) Gudhi Padwa / ChetiChand is celebrated on the first day of the Hindu Lunar month of Chaitra, and is celebrated as New Year's Day by Marathis, Konkanis and Sindhis.
Holi, the Hindu spring festival of colours, is celebrated on the full moon day of Phalguna, the month before Chaitra, exactly six days after which the Chaiti form of the Chhath festival is observed. In Chandramana (lunar) religious calendars, Chaitra begins with the new moon in March−April and is the first month of the year.
After the partition of India in 1947, about half of the Sindhi Hindu community had to migrate to the Dominion of India from the Dominion of Pakistan.As of the 2011 census, there were about 2.7 million Sindhis living in the Republic of India settled mostly in Western states like Maharashtra, Gujarat and Rajasthan.