Home›Hindu Festivals›Calendar System›Hindu lunisolar (panchanga)Browse ByHindu lunisolar (panchanga)This page groups holidays by the kind of calendar that sets their date. Wikipedia notes that "religious festivals are commonly celebrated on recurring cycles in a calendar year or lunar calendar." Browsing by calendar system lets a visitor find every holiday fixed by the same kind of calendar.FactsLearn MoreHindu lunisolar (panchanga)SourcesComments (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.Hindu lunisolar (panchanga)Filter Results20 entriesTraditionAllShaktism (2)Vaishnavism (3)Date TypeAllFixed date in its own calendar (19)Set by an astronomical event or computus (1)Observance TypeAllCommemoration of a person or event (1)Deliverance or victory remembered (1)Fast / abstinence (2)Feast / celebration (5)Kinship or family bond (1)Memorial of the dead (1)Nativity / birth remembered (3)New year (2)Pilgrimage (3)Procession (4)Purification (1)Seasonal turning point (3)Veneration of a deity or holy figure (11)Vigil / night observance (1)Origin EraAll1700 (1)1893 (1)Place of OriginAllIndia (18)Nepal (2)UNESCO StatusAllInscribed on the Representative List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity (3)Status TodayAllLiving tradition, practised today (20)Show ResultsBrowseCompareSelect all 20Bhai DoojHindu lunisolar (panchanga)Chhath PujaHindu lunisolar (panchanga)DhanterasHindu lunisolar (panchanga)DiwaliHindu lunisolar (panchanga)Durga PujaHindu lunisolar (panchanga)DussehraHindu lunisolar (panchanga)Gai JatraHindu lunisolar (panchanga)Ganesh ChaturthiHindu lunisolar (panchanga)Govardhan PujaHindu lunisolar (panchanga)Gudi PadwaHindu lunisolar (panchanga)Hanuman JayantiHindu lunisolar (panchanga)HoliHindu lunisolar (panchanga)Krishna JanmashtamiHindu lunisolar (panchanga)Kumbh MelaHindu lunisolar (panchanga)NavaratriHindu lunisolar (panchanga)Ram NavamiHindu lunisolar (panchanga)Ratha YatraHindu lunisolar (panchanga)ThaipusamHindu lunisolar (panchanga)UgadiHindu lunisolar (panchanga)Vasant PanchamiHindu lunisolar (panchanga)Sources1. 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.