Practice & Festival
Rites, festivals, pilgrimage and daily observance.
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- DhanterasDhanteras, or Dhanatrayodashi, is the first of the five days of Diwali, observed on the thirt…
- Dīvālī and Rāma's returnIn North Indian tradition the lamps of Dīvālī mark the night Ayodhyā lit itself for Rāma's re…
- DiwaliDiwali, or Deepavali ("row of lamps"), is a five-day festival of lights observed by Hindus, J…
- Diwali 2024 calendarThis entry records the five-day Diwali calendar as observed in 2024, when Dhanteras fell on 2…
- DussehraDussehra, or Vijayadashami, is a Hindu festival observed on the tenth day of the bright fortn…
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- KanwariyasKanwariyas are Hindu devotees of Shiva who undertake the Kanwar Yatra, an annual pilgrimage o…
- Kullu DussehraKullu Dussehra is a week-long Hindu festival held at Dhalpur in the Kullu Valley of Himachal…
- Kumbh MelaThe Kumbh Mela is a Hindu mass pilgrimage and ritual bathing festival held on a rotating cycl…
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- Maha Kumbh Mela 2025The Maha Kumbh Mela 2025 was a Hindu pilgrimage festival held at the Triveni Sangam in Prayag…
- Maha ShivaratriMaha Shivaratri, the 'Great Night of Shiva,' is a Hindu festival observed on the fourteenth n…
- MahamastakabhishekaThe Mahamastakabhisheka is the anointing of the colossal Jain image of Bahubali at Shravanabe…
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- Raksha BandhanRaksha Bandhan (Rakhi) is a Hindu festival, kept on the full moon of the lunar month of Shrav…
- Rām NavamīRām Navamī is the Hindu festival of Rāma's birth, kept on the ninth day of the bright half of…
- The Rāma pilgrimage circuitThe places of the Rāmāyaṇa form a pilgrimage geography running the length of India — Ayodhyā,…
- The Rāmānandī sampradāyaThe Rāmānandīs are the largest order of Vaiṣṇava ascetics in northern India, devoted to Rāma…
- RāmlīlāRāmlīlā is the annual public staging of the Rāmāyaṇa across northern India, played over days…
- The Rāmnāmī SamājThe Rāmnāmīs are a community of the Chhattisgarh plains, founded in the late nineteenth centu…
- Republic DayRepublic Day is India's annual national observance on 26 January, commemorating the 1950 entr…
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- SallekhanaSallekhana is the Jain practice of voluntarily fasting to death when death is otherwise near,…
- Sharad NavratriSharad Navratri is the principal autumn observance of Navratri, a nine-night Hindu festival h…
- Shraddha and Pitru PakshaShraddha is the Hindu ritual of offering food and libations to deceased ancestors, performed…