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Hindus celebrate a wide number of festivals and celebrations, many of which commemorate events from ancient India and often align with seasonal changes. [1] These festivities take place either on a fixed annual date on the solar calendar, or on a specific day of the lunisolar calendar.
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The Hindu festivals typically are either on or the day after the full moon night or the darkest night (amavasya, अमावास्या), except for some associated with Krishna, Durga or Rama. The lunar months of the hot summer and the busy major cropping-related part of the monsoon season typically do not schedule major festivals. [43]
Festival name Date - Hindu lunar calendar Date - Gregorian calendar Celebrating or Dieting worshiped Duration Description Gudi Padwa: 1st day of Chaitra: March–April: New Year: One day: The year starts on the first day of Chaitra known as Gudi Padwa] which falls around March or April of the Western calendar.
Hindu festival that celebrates the victory of good over evil. It is celebrated on the tenth day of Ashvin, the seventh month in the Hindu Calendar [13] Sikh festival called Dasehra. Sri Guru Gobind Singh Ji instructed Sikhs to use this time as 9 nights of reciting Bir Ras - Judh Mai Bani (Bani infused with warrior spirit).
The Gazette of India is dated in both the Gregorian calendar and the Indian national calendar. The Indian national calendar, also called the Shaka calendar or Śaka calendar, is a solar calendar that is used alongside the Gregorian calendar by The Gazette of India, in news broadcasts by All India Radio, and in calendars and official communications issued by the Government of India. [1]
As per the Hindu Calendar, it falls on Shukla Paksha Pratipada in the Hindu month of Kartik. As per the Indian Calendar based on the lunar cycle, Kartik is the first month of the year and the New Year in Gujarat falls on the first bright day of Kartik (Ekam). In other parts of India, New Year celebrations begin in the spring.