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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]
So much has been said and written about it that it would be superfluous to mention the event again. 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 ...
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.
Date Festival name Region / Communities / Religions [3] Solar: 1 Vaisakh (13/14 April) Vaisakhi: Punjab, Chandigarh, Haryana, Himachal Pradesh, Jammu, and parts of Delhi: Lunar: varies, Mar/Apr: Chaitra Navaratri (Hindu Lunar New Year)
Date Name Type Details January 26: Republic Day: fixed Celebrates the 1950 adoption of the Constitution of India [2] August 15: Independence Day: fixed Celebrates the 1947 Independence from the British rule [3] October 2: Gandhi Jayanti: fixed Honors Mahatma Gandhi, who was born on October 2, 1869 [4]
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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.
According to Jain texts, Mahavira was born on the thirteenth day of the bright half of the moon in the month of Chaitra in the year 599 BCE (Chaitra Sud 13). [3] [4] So Jains celebrate Mahavir Janma Kalyanak, one of the most important religious festivals in Jainism during Chaitra