enow.com Web Search

Search results

1. Results from the WOW.Com Content Network

2. List of Hindu festivals - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hindu_festivals

   Tenth day of waxing moon of Ashvin (Hindu calendar) Vijayadashami is the Hindu celebration of good over evil. Govatsa Dwadashi: In a poster condemning the consumption of beef, the sacred cow Kamadhenu is depicted as containing various deities within her body. Twelfth day of the waning moon fortnight (Krishna Paksha) in the month of Kartik ...

3. Amalaka Ekadashi - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amalaka_Ekadashi

   Devotees fast on this day and gifts are offered to Brahmin priests praying for prosperity, wealth and health. [ 7 ] [ 6 ] [ 8 ] Devotees also listen to the vrata katha of Amalaka Ekadashi. [ 11 ] Offering of food and charity is prescribed on this day; the virtue is equated to the performance of a vajapeya , a soma yajna sacrifice.

4. Category:Hindu holy days - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Hindu_holy_days

   Hinduism portal; Subcategories. This category has the following 5 subcategories, out of 5 total. B. Hindu holy days in Bali (2 C, 1 P) D. Diwali (18 P) E. Ekadashi ...

5. Bhairava Ashtami - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bhairava_Ashtami

   Bhairava Ashtami (Sanskrit: भैरवाष्टमी, romanized: Bhairavāṣṭamī), also known as Bhairavashtami, Bhairava Jayanti, Kala-Bhairava Ashtami and Kala-Bhairava Jayanti is a Hindu holy day commemorating the manifestation of the deity Bhairava, a fearsome and wrathful manifestation of the god Shiva. [5]

6. Ganga Dussehra - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ganga_Dussehra

   It is believed by Hindus that the holy river Ganges descended from heaven to earth on this day. [1] Ganga Dussehra takes place on Dashami (10th day) of the waxing moon (Shukla Paksha) of the Hindu calendar month Jyeshtha. The festival celebration lasts ten days, including the nine days preceding this holy day.

7. Durga Ashtami - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durga_Ashtami

   Durga Ashtami or Maha Ashtami is the eighth day of the Navaratri festival celebrated by Hindus in veneration of the goddess Durga.In Eastern India, Durga Ashatmi is also one of the most auspicious days of the five days-long Durga Puja festival. [1]

8. Guru Purnima - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Guru_Purnima

   This was the day when Vyasa – author of the Mahabharata – was born to sage Parashara and a fisherman's daughter Satyavati; thus, this day is also celebrated as Vyasa Purnima. [5] Veda Vyasa did yeoman service to the cause of Vedic studies by gathering all the Vedic hymns extant during his times and dividing them into four parts based on ...

9. Chaturmasya - Wikipedia

   en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaturmasya

   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 ( yoga nidra ) [ 7 ] on his serpent, Shesha , for a period of four months and wakes up on Prabodhini Ekadashi .