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HAPPY UGADI TO ALL GANGAA VIEWERS
May This Ugadi be as bright as ever. May this Ugadi bring joy, health and wealth to you. May the festival of lights brighten up you and your near and dear ones lives
The word "Ugadi" has originated from a Sanskrit word "Yugadi". Yug' means age' and adi' means beginning', so it signifies "the beginning of the new age". This festival comes every year in the month of March or April. The date is not fixed as it depends on the position of sun and moon (Indian calendar is based on position of sun and moon).
Significance of Ugadi
- Ugadi signifies the change in the lunar orbit as well as the beginning of new Hindu lunar calendar.The trees have new green leaves. New flowers are seen everywhere. The season of spring is accompanied with joy and pleasure of Ugadi.
- "Vasanta Navratri" begins on this day and concludes on the ninth day with another auspicious day "Ramnavmi".
- Different Mantras are chanted and predictions are made for the coming year.Panchanga Shravanam - hearing of Panchanga (a Hindu calendar based on planetary motion) is done by the priests in temples.
- It is believed that the benefits to the listener as well as the reader, are equivalent to having a dip in the holy river Ganges.
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