Gudi Padwa is celebrated on the first day of the Chaitra month. It is
celebrated as the New Year day by Maharashtrians, Andhra Pradesh and parts of Karnataka. This festival is also known as Ugadi in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh. On this very day Lord Brahma created the Universe. Lord Vishnu too is said to have incarnated as Matsya, the fish, on this day.
It is celebrated with an auspicious bath, followed by decorating the doorway with a ‘toran’, performing ritualistic worship and hoisting the Dhwaja or Gudhi. People celebrate this festival with great spirit and joy. It has become a custom to hold Kavi Sammelans (Poetry recitals) this day. People prepare for the New Year by cleaning and washing their houses and buying new clothes.
On the festival day they decorate their houses with mango leaves and 'rangoli' designs, and pray for a prosperous new year. Gudis are hung outside the houses or in the localities. A 'gudi' is a pole on the top of which an upturned brass or silver pot called a kalash is placed. Then boys and young men of the locality form a pyramid and the person on top of the pyramid breaks the coconut which is in the kalash.
The prasad of Ugadi/Gudi Padwa is the bitter leaves of the neem tree with jaggery. There are special foods prepared for this festival Puligore-a sour tamarind rice dish, bobbatlu, holige- sweet stuffed bread, Ugadi Pachadi and Shrikhand. This is one of the 3 and a half days in the Hindu Lunar calendar, whose every moment is considered auspicious.
celebrated as the New Year day by Maharashtrians, Andhra Pradesh and parts of Karnataka. This festival is also known as Ugadi in Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh. On this very day Lord Brahma created the Universe. Lord Vishnu too is said to have incarnated as Matsya, the fish, on this day.
It is celebrated with an auspicious bath, followed by decorating the doorway with a ‘toran’, performing ritualistic worship and hoisting the Dhwaja or Gudhi. People celebrate this festival with great spirit and joy. It has become a custom to hold Kavi Sammelans (Poetry recitals) this day. People prepare for the New Year by cleaning and washing their houses and buying new clothes.
On the festival day they decorate their houses with mango leaves and 'rangoli' designs, and pray for a prosperous new year. Gudis are hung outside the houses or in the localities. A 'gudi' is a pole on the top of which an upturned brass or silver pot called a kalash is placed. Then boys and young men of the locality form a pyramid and the person on top of the pyramid breaks the coconut which is in the kalash.
The prasad of Ugadi/Gudi Padwa is the bitter leaves of the neem tree with jaggery. There are special foods prepared for this festival Puligore-a sour tamarind rice dish, bobbatlu, holige- sweet stuffed bread, Ugadi Pachadi and Shrikhand. This is one of the 3 and a half days in the Hindu Lunar calendar, whose every moment is considered auspicious.
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