When.com Web Search

Search results

  1. Results From The WOW.Com Content Network
  2. Indian rituals after death - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_rituals_after_death

    Pind Sammelan, also called Spindi or terahvin in North India, [11][12][13] is a ritual performed in Hinduism on the 13th day of death of somebody. This ritual is performed to place the departed soul with their ancestors and deities. It is believed that before the ritual, the departed soul is a preta (evil spirit), and after performing this ...

  3. Makar Sankranti - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Makar_Sankranti

    The second and main day of the four-day festival, and is dedicated to the Hindu god Surya. [38] The day marks the start of the Uttarayana, when the sun enters the 10th house of the zodiac Makara. [39] It is commonly called as Pedda Panduga (Big festival) in the Andhra Pradesh state. [40] Ariselu, a traditional sweet dish is offered to the god ...

  4. List of Hindu festivals - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Hindu_festivals

    Champa Sashti festival is a six-day festival observed from the first to the sixth of the Hindu month of Margashirsha (November – early December). It is one of the most important festivals dedicated to Lord Khandoba.This festival celebrates the victory of Khandoba against the demons Mani-Malla. Prathamastami.

  5. Puja (Hinduism) - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Puja_(Hinduism)

    Puja (Sanskrit: पूजा, romanized: pūjā) is a worship ritual performed by Hindus to offer devotional homage and prayer to one or more deities, to host and honour a guest, or to spiritually celebrate an event. [1][2] It may honour or celebrate the presence of special guests, or their memories after they die. The word puja is roughly ...

  6. Khasi people - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khasi_people

    The Khasi people are an ethnic group of Meghalaya in north-eastern India with a significant population in the bordering state of Assam, and in certain parts of Bangladesh. Khasi people form the majority of the population of the eastern part of Meghalaya, that is Khasi Hills, constituting 78.3% of the region's population, [ 9 ] and is the state ...

  7. Indo-Fijians - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indo-Fijians

    The majority of Indo-Fijians came from northern, northern eastern and southeastern part of India and converse in what is known as Fiji Hindi (also known as 'Fiji Baat'), this language has been constructed from eastern Hindi dialects mixed with some native Fijian and some English loan words, [33] with some minorities speaking Gujarati, and ...

  8. Ashvamedha - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashvamedha

    Ashvamedha yajna of Yudhisthira. The Ashvamedha (Sanskrit: अश्वमेध, romanized: aśvamedha) [1] was a horse sacrifice ritual followed by the Śrauta tradition of Vedic religion. It was used by ancient Indian kings to prove their imperial sovereignty: a horse accompanied by the king's warriors would be released to wander for a year.

  9. Garma Festival of Traditional Cultures - Wikipedia

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Garma_Festival_of...

    The Garma Festival of Traditional Cultures (Garma) is Australia's largest Indigenous cultural gathering, taking place over four days each August in northeast Arnhem Land, in the Northern Territory, Australia. Hosted by the Yothu Yindi Foundation, Garma is a celebration of the cultural traditions of the Yolngu people, and a major community ...