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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]
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.
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 ...
Cheti Chand : Sindhi Hindus in India and Pakistan; Bisket Jatra or Baisakh Ek Gatey: Nepal; Pahela Baishakh: West Bengal, east and northeastern India, and Bangladesh; Pana Sankranti: Odisha, India; Sangken: Khamti, Singpho, Khamyang, Tangsa in Arunachal Pradesh and Tai Phake, Tai Aiton, and Turung in Assam; Bwisagu: Bodoland region of Assam, India
The Cheti Chand festival in the Hindu month of Chaitra [41] marks the arrival of spring and harvest, but in Sindhi Hindu community, it also marks the mythical birth of Uderolal in the year 1007. [42] [43] [44] Uderolal morphed into a warrior and old man who preached and reprimanded Mirkhshah that Muslims and Hindus deserve the same religious ...
There are numerous days throughout the year celebrated as New Year's Day in the different regions of India. The observance is determined by whether the lunar, solar or lunisolar calendar is being followed.
Celebrates the beginning of the Telugu and Kannada New Year March – April: Cheti Chand: Floating Celebrates the beginning of the Sindhi New Year April: Vishu: Floating Celebrates the beginning of the Malayali New Year [20] April: Vaisakhi: Floating
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.