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Navratri - Sep 29 to Oct 7
Dasara - Oct 8
UGADI
Description: New Year
Day: Chaitramasa Padyami
Calendar Month: March or April
Main Dish: Ugadi Pachhadi
Tradition: Read Panchanga for that Year
Naaga Chathurthi
Description: Festival of snake god, women and girls pray to protect their parents, brothers and their families.
Day: Shravana Shudha Chaturthi
Calendar Month: July or August
Main Dish:upavasa (no food)
Tradition: Serve milk to Naga devatha, soak rice in water and after half an hour drain the water and grind the jaggery with rice water, serve as naivedya
Naaga Panchami
Description: Festival of snake god, women and girls pray to protect their parents, brothers and their families.
Day: Shravana Shudha Panchami
Calendar Month: July or August
Main Dish:
Tradition: Serve milk to Naga devatha, soak rice in water and after half an hour drain the water and grind the jaggery with rice water, serve as naivedya. Cannot cut, fry any food items
Vara Mahalaxmi Vrata
Description:
Day: Shravana Masa- 2nd Friday
Calendar Month: July or August
Main Dish:9 dishes (see Recipes)
Tradition: Dhara, Invite at least one
muthaidi (married woman) for lunch/dinner
Rakhee Pournima
Description:
Day: Shravana Pournima
Calendar Month: July or August
Main Dish:sweets like gulab jamun, peda
Tradition: Sister and brother bond over Rakhee
Raghavendra Swamy Aradhane
Description:
Day: Shravana Bahula (Vidhiya, Tidhiya, Chauthi)
Calendar Month: July or August
Main Dish:none
Tradition: Celebrated in the temple
Krishna Ashtami/Janma Asthami
Description: Celebrate birth of Lord Krishna
Day: Shravana Bahula Asthami
Calendar Month: July or August
Main Dish: butter, butter and sunthi (dry ginger), mulitple dishes with aulakki as the main ingredient
Tradition: fast until midnight, make dollsof bala krishna and others, krishna puja and offer naivaidya with the dishes described above
Ganesh Chauthi
Description:
Day: Bhadrapada Shudha Chaturdasi
Calendar Month: August or September
Main Dish:modak (special dishes)
Tradition: Stapana of Ganesh made out of mud
Anantha Chaturdasi
Description:
Day: Bhadrapada Shudha Chaturdasi
Calendar Month: August or September
Main Dish:
Tradition: Ganesh Visarjana
Navaratri
Description:
Day: Ashwija Shudha Padyami to Navami
Calendar Month: Septemper or October
Main Dish:sweets like holgi, kadubu
Tradition:
Dasara/Dussehra/Vijaya Dashami
Description:
Day: Ashwija Shudha Dashami
Calendar Month: September or October
Main Dish:See Recipes
Tradition:
Naraka Chaturdasi
Description:
Day: Ashwija Bahula Chaturdasi
Calendar Month: September or October
Main Dish:snacks
Tradition: light deepas
Deepavali
Description:
Day: Ashwija Amavasya
Calendar Month: September or October
Main Dish:snacks
Tradition:
Tulasi Kalyana
Description:
Day: Karthika Pournima
Calendar Month: October or November
Main Dish:
Tradition:
Makara Sankranthi
Description:
Day: January 13th or 14th
Calendar Month: January
Main Dish:Pongal qnd dishes with sesame seeds
Tradition:
Rathasaptami
Description:
Day: Magha Shudha Saptami
Calendar Month: January and February
Main Dish:
Tradition:
Shivaratri
Description:
Day: Magha Trayodasi
Calendar Month: January or February
Main Dish:
Tradition:
Holi
Description:
Day: Phalguna Pournima (Hunnivi)
Calendar Month: February or March
Main Dish:
Tradition: Meet friends and families and play holi
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