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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.
The Cheti Chand festival in the month of Chaitra, marks the arrival of spring and harvest, as well as the incarnation day of Uderolal in the Vikram Samvat calendar year 1007. [1] [2] Uderolal morphed into a warrior and old man who preached and reprimanded Mirkhshah that Muslims and Hindus deserve the same religious freedoms.
For others, the new year falls on Cheti Chand, Gudi Padwa and Ugadi which falls a few weeks earlier. [2] [50] The harvest is complete and crops ready to sell, representing a time of plenty for the farmers. Fairs and special thanksgiving pujas (prayers) are common in the Hindu tradition. [51]
Chaturmasya begins on the eleventh day of the Hindu lunar month of Ashadha or Devashayani Ekadashi.This is celebrated as the day that the deity Vishnu enters a yogic sleep [7] on his serpent, Shesha, for a period of four months and wakes up on Prabodhini Ekadashi.
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.