Festivals in Andhra Pradesh

Ugadi Pachadi|thumb|right ' (), (, ) or also known as Saṁvatsarādi' (), is the first day of the year on the Hindu calendar. It is traditionally celebrated by the Kannadigas and Telugu people in the Indian states of Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka and Telangana, in some parts of Tamil Nadu and Kerala, as well as by diaspora communities elsewhere. The cycle consists of 60 years—each year individually named. It is observed on the first day of the Hindu lunisolar calendar month of Chaitra. This typically falls in late March or early April of the Gregorian calendar. It also sometimes falls on the day aft

Marathi Hindu new year festival

annual cow dung fight in Andhra Pradesh

hindu occasion

Hindu festival held every 144 years

South Indian festival part of Pongal

Sirimanothsavam, () (also referred to as Sirimanu Uthsavam, Siri Manu Fete/Festival, Sirimanu Panduga) is a festival organized to propitiate Goddess Pyddithallamma of Vizianagram Town. Siri means "goddess Lakshmi in other words wealth and prosperity " and manu means "trunk" or "log". The priest of the temple, while taking procession between the fort and temple three times in the evening, hangs from the tip of the long, lean wooden staff (measuring 60 feet), raised high into the sky. The priest possessed by the goddess would himself tell a few days before, where this manu would be available. It

annual lunar festival

Hindu festivals

hindu river festival in India

Shrine in Nellore, Andhra Pradesh, India

Indian festival