What is Diwali aka Deepavali ? This question comes to your mind if you are not a Hindu or Indian, when you search for Indian festivals. Diwali is a popular festival in India for Hindus,Jain etc like Christmas is an important festival for Christians.
Next question would be what's the Diwali significance and for how many days Diwali is celebrated. In this post, we will know about Diwali ( define Diwali) and some other Diwali festival information.
Diwali or Deepavali is popularly known as Festival of Lights. This is one of the old and most celebrated Hindu festival. It signifies the victory of light over darkness or good over evil. It's celebration and rituals extend over a period of five days and it falls generally in mid of October or at starting of November. It is an official long holiday in India.
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Now you know that Diwali is celebrated over 5 days, let's see which are these days. Here I will mention brief details about each day, its special name and respective celebration ways.
Dhan means Lakshmi. People purchases gold as per their budget , some purchases Silver depending upon the how much one can spend.
What Does DhanTeras mean?
The word Dhana means wealth and Trayodashi mean 13th day as per Hindu calendar.
How DhanTeras Celebrated?
Goddess Lakshmi is worshiped to provide prosperity on Dhanteras. On this day people purchase precious metal Gold,Silver is main reason that Dhanteras holds special significance for the business community. To be precise people buy gold and/or silver jewelry or utensils to revere the occasion of Dhanteras.
The God of assets and wealth is Lord Kubera is also worshiped on this day. click here to know more about DhanTeras
On this day people make Vada made from Black Gram and it is said that removing of bad power from home.
What does Kali Chaudas means?
Kali Chaudas is also known as Bhut Chaturdashi. Kali Chaudas as the name indicates is dedicated to Goddess Kali and is observed on the 14th day of Ashwin month mainly in Gujarat. The auspicious day, which falls a day before Diwali, is dedicated to the worship of Goddess Mahakali.
Narak Chaturdashi is observed on Kali Chaudas day usually.
Kali means Dark (evil) and Chaudas - Fourteenth. Thus,Kali Chaudas is celebrated on 14th day of Ashwin, Kali Chaudas is the day allotted to the worship of Maha-Kali or Shakti and is believed that on this day Kali killed the wicked Raktavija. read more about Kali Chaudas.
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People celebrates New year and visit relative,friends' home to give New year wishes.Its first day of Kartika month (Hindu calendar)
What does Happy New year “Saal Mubarak” mean?
Saal means year, and Mubarak means blessing/good wishes is an originally Arabic term The phrase 'Saal Mubarak' is Gujarati equivalent of Happy New Year in English.
Other Name of Happy New Year.
Gujarati New Year is also known as Bestu Varas. Like said earlier it is celebrated the day after the Diwali click Happy New year to know more
On this day Brother goes to Sister's place to meet her and have food at her place.
To know more about Bhai dooj read my post.
To know more about Bhai dooj read my post.
hai, Dooj/ Bhai Beej is the last day of the Five days long Indian Festival of Lights called Diwali. Mostly celebrated in Northern part of India. As the name suggests this festival is dedicated to Sister and Brother love.
Is Bhai dooj same as Raksha Bandhan?
If you know Raksha Bandhan another Indian festival for Brother and Sisters, on Rakhi Sister goes to Brother's place and tie a Rakhi to him. On another hand on Bhai dooj Sisters invite their beloved brothers at her place for a sumptuous meal often including their favorite dishes/sweets made by her.
As said Diwali is a festival of light mainly because during Diwali Celebration people puts Diya, Kandil and other various sources of Light at their door steps, wall. You feel the positivism around you.
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