Home›Hindu Festivals›All Hindu FestivalsBrowse ByAll Hindu FestivalsExtended or major calendar celebrations, frequently multi-day and often the largest and most public events on a tradition's religious calendar, distinguished from the shorter feast days nearby chiefly by scale and duration. Many festivals mix devotional, communal and civic elements in a way single feast days do not.FactsLearn MoreAll Hindu FestivalsSourcesComments (0)Reader Challenges (0)FactsOverviewWhat Defines This GroupingWell-attestedRecurring days of public celebration in a tradition's calendar, usually communal and usually marked by gathering, food, procession or lights. It is the widest of the holiday groupings and the least precise: what it collects is defined against the narrower labels - not a fast, not a feast of appointed liturgical rank, not a day of highest rank - rather than by a property of its own. 2DirectoryCategoryWell-attestedHolidays & Festivals 1Learn MoreThe Festivals This group gathers festivals, the joyous celebrations of the religious calendar, marking sacred events, seasons and divine figures with feasting, gathering, ritual and rejoicing. Festivals are among the most visible and communal expressions of religious life, and this is the largest holiday grouping in the atlas. The browser will find festivals from across the world's traditions. The entries describe each festival's occasion, customs and meaning, noting the tradition and the calendar on which it falls.All Hindu FestivalsFilter Results25 entriesTraditionAllShaktism (2)Vaishnavism (3)Calendar SystemAllHindu lunisolar (panchanga) (20)Hindu solar (sidereal, sankranti-based) (6)Date TypeAllFixed date in its own calendar (22)Set by an astronomical event or computus (3)Observance TypeAllCommemoration of a person or event (1)Deliverance or victory remembered (1)Fast / abstinence (2)Feast / celebration (7)Harvest / agricultural (3)Kinship or family bond (1)Memorial of the dead (1)Nativity / birth remembered (3)New year (3)Pilgrimage (3)Procession (4)Purification (1)Seasonal turning point (4)Veneration of a deity or holy figure (12)Vigil / night observance (1)MonthAllJanuary (1)Origin EraAll1700 (1)1893 (1)Place of OriginAllIndia (23)Nepal (2)UNESCO StatusAllInscribed on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity (3)Status TodayAllLiving tradition, practised today (24)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 25Ambubachi MelaHindu FestivalsBhai DoojHindu FestivalsChhath PujaHindu FestivalsDhanterasHindu FestivalsDiwaliHindu FestivalsDurga PujaHindu FestivalsDussehraHindu FestivalsGai JatraHindu FestivalsGanesh ChaturthiHindu FestivalsGovardhan PujaHindu FestivalsGudi PadwaHindu FestivalsHanuman JayantiHindu FestivalsHoliHindu FestivalsKrishna JanmashtamiHindu FestivalsKumbh MelaHindu FestivalsMakar SankrantiHindu FestivalsNavaratriHindu FestivalsOnamHindu FestivalsPongalHindu FestivalsRam NavamiHindu FestivalsRatha YatraHindu FestivalsThaipusamHindu FestivalsUgadiHindu FestivalsVasant PanchamiHindu FestivalsVishuHindu FestivalsSources1. Divinity Atlas Directory Taxonomy, First Edition Category Treetier 12. Encyclopedia of Religiontier 1Mircea Eliade (ed.); Lindsay Jones (ed., 2nd ed.), Macmillan Reference, 2005View the SourceDivinity Atlas Directory Prose, First Edition Category Descriptionstier 1Comments (0)No comments yet. Be the first to share a thought.Sign in to join the discussion.Reader Challenges (0)No disputes yet. Spotted an error or a better source? Open the first one.Sign in to dispute this or suggest a correction.