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The Ambubachi Mela (/ ˈ æ m b u ˌ b ɑː tʃ i, ˌ æ m b u ˈ b ɑː tʃ i ˈ m eɪ l ə, m iː l ə /) is an annual Hindu mela (gathering) held at Kamakhya Temple in Guwahati, Assam. [4] This yearly mela is celebrated during the monsoon season that happens to fall during the Assamese month Ahaar, around the middle of June when the sun transits to the zodiac of Mithuna, when the ...
What Happens During the Fall Equinox? During the Fall Equinox, once the sun crosses the equator, it is located more south in the sky. As a result, the Earth’s Northern Hemisphere is tilted ...
During World War II, the colonial government banned the Kumbh Mela to conserve scarce supplies of fuel. The ban, coupled with false rumours that Japan planned to bomb and commit genocide at the Kumbh Mela site, led to sharply lower attendance at the 1942 Kumbh Mela than in prior decades when an estimated 2 to 4 million pilgrims gathered at each ...
Durga Puja, the biggest festival of the Bengalis, is celebrated annually during the Hindu calendar month Ashvin (September and October). The celebration begins with Mahalaya. [ 12 ] Mahalaya is the day when the goddess Durga is believed to have descended to Earth.
Vasant Panchami (also called Saraswati Puja by Bengalis and Odias) is celebrated for the blessing of Saraswati, goddess of wisdom and the arts. [6] Thaipusam or Kavadi: Murugan during Thaipusam: The full moon day of the Tamil month of Thai Thaipusam is a Hindu festival predominantly celebrated by the Tamil community.
Arti plate. Arti (Hindi: आरती, romanized: Āratī) or Aarati (Sanskrit: आरात्रिक, romanized: Ārātrika) [1] [2] is a Hindu ritual employed in worship, part of a puja, in which light from a flame (fuelled by camphor, ghee, or oil) is ritually waved to venerate deities.
The word puja is roughly translated into English as 'reverence, honour, homage, adoration, or worship'. [3] Puja (পুজো / পুজা in bangla), the loving offering of light, flowers, and water or food to the divine, is the essential ritual of Hinduism. For the worshipper, the divine is visible in the image, and the divinity sees the ...
Homemade delicious sweet food is offered during this festival. On the seventh, eighth and ninth days of the Puja, khir is offered as prasad. [1] [5] Every evening, women try to please Lord Shiva by singing Aarti, Suhag Geet and Kohbar. The women eat arava food once daily. The women offer milk and lava to the Nag Devta in the morning and evening.