Happy ugadi ..

Today we are celebrating here Hindu near samwatsar 2074 and today is also first Navratra. Nine day fast begins from today. People worship here Godess Durga with different nine name. Today is day of Shail Mata.

Read more about celebration of Navratra and New samwatsar.

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We, in AP are going to celebrate Ugadi or New year's Day tomorrow that is on 29 March, Chaitra Month.

rambabu wrote:

We, in AP are going to celebrate Ugadi or New year's Day tomorrow that is on 29 March, Chaitra Month.

Indeed here is also state holiday is on 29th but Navratra is begins from today. Tomorrow is also Chatichand. It is only festival of Sindhi community.

On Ugadi Day, there will not be a Holiday her in Vizag. Because, there is a belief that whatever one does, on Ugadi day, you will be doing the same thing throgh out the year. That is why people work . Of course just for name sake only.

anil wrote:

Today we are celebrating here Hindu near samwatsar 2074 and today is also first Navratra. Nine day fast begins from today. People worship here Godess Durga with different nine name. Today is day of Shail Mata.

Read more about celebration of Navratra and New samwatsar.

http://epaper.bhaskar.com/detail/1167484/3283827750/0/map/tabs-1/03-28-2017/41/4/image/

I was noot aware that Ugadi was celebrated for nine days ...So there are two Navaratris in your place ..

We in AP Ugadi call it as Samstaradi. It is observed on the first day of the month Chaitra. All the members of the family wear new clothes. We prepare a special preparation called Pachchade consisting of a filling  six tastes like sweet, hot sour etc and it is called "  Shadruchis"

 The same day is called as Gudipadwa in Maharashtra.

 The name Ugadi is derived from the Sanskrit word Yuga means age and Adi means beginning, the beginning of a New age.

We will also be celebrating the new year today. Its called cheraoba. We offer uncooked  vegetables,fruits, rice etc to the home deity in the morning. These are later cooked and offered to the departed souls outside the gate. We also offer candle, incense stick, currency, flowers along with the food. We also share the food with our neighbours. The married women later in the afternoon visit their maternal home and gift clothes to the elders and brothers.

Very informative. Customs and rituals pertaining to Ugadi or New year's day vary from place to place. Of course a common feature is "every thing new".

Hindus on this day wear new Clothes and visit temples and do  some Charity to the Poor.But the custom of women visiting maternal home. I think is some thing new.

Thanks for the info.

rambabu wrote:

Very informative. Customs and rituals pertaining to Ugadi or New year's day vary from place to place. Of course a common feature is "every thing new".

Hindus on this day wear new Clothes and visit temples and do  some Charity to the Poor.But the custom of women visiting maternal home. I think is some thing new.

Thanks for the info.

Earlier it was a custom for the married women to give the gifts on the new year day but nowadays since it has become a practice for families to go for hiking on hill top after a sumptuous meal prepared at home on new year, many women gift things a few days after new year.

Of course, the practice going for hiking is not there in these parts of the State.

Married women stay with their families. If some of the family members are far away, like my son lives in Kakinada and my two daughters too live in different places

For them we send New year greetings by Cell phone.

jabeen wrote:

We will also be celebrating the new year today. Its called cheraoba. We offer uncooked  vegetables,fruits, rice etc to the home deity in the morning. These are later cooked and offered to the departed souls outside the gate. We also offer candle, incense stick, currency, flowers along with the food. We also share the food with our neighbours. The married women later in the afternoon visit their maternal home and gift clothes to the elders and brothers.

Interesting customs ..We too offer vegetables, seasonal fruits ,rice grown in our fields etc to the diety and decorate the front door with but bunches of mango leaves and Marigold flowers. The entire family is given a mixture made with been leaves, jaggery and raw mangoes which symbolises life and it's struggles - bitter,sweet and sour ! The special dish we normally prepare is a payasa made with tender cashew nuts and holige with coconut and jaggery filling  .

Just now, my wife gave me " Ugadi Pachchadi" having all the six tastes known as " Shadruculu "

Another typical feature on this Ugadi Day is Known as " Pachanga Sravanam"

In this Panchanga Sravanam all the details about Income, Expenditure etc are predicted during this Hevalambi Nama Samvatsara

We celebrated Gudhi Padwa yesterday, the beginning of a new year for us. It is celebrated to mark the victory of Shalivahan over the shakas and it also when Shalivahan introduced the calendar that we Maharashtrians still follow, the calendar is called as Shalivahan Shake. We celebrate this day by raising Gudhi or the 'Brahmadhwaj' outside our homes. Gudhi is prepared by draping a new cloth at one end of a bamboo stick, tying a branch of mango leaves and neem leaves and flowers, decorating it with a garland of marigold flowers and a special garland made of sugar medallions (sakhrechi gathi) and placing a copper or silver lota over this. We then draw a Swastik on this lota with kumkum and ashtagandha and this gudhi is then raised outside our window or balcony. This is done in the mornings and the gudhi is taken off at sunset. We eat prasad made of blending together tender new neem leaves and flowers, jaggery, coriander seeds and cumin seeds. This is so that we can avail the goodness and healing as well as cooling properties of neem and help counter the heat of the summer.

First of all. let me wish .your family members a happy Ugadi.

 Yes I know in Maharashtra Gudhi Padwa was celebrated yesterday. Once again I wish you all the best.

rambabu wrote:

First of all. let me wish .your family members a happy Ugadi.

 Yes I know in Maharashtra Gudhi Padwa was celebrated yesterday. Once again I wish you all the best.

Thank for your wishes and the same to you and your family.

Thank you Kalyani. I am very happy. And I want that your hearty wishes become true in this year.

rambabu wrote:

Just now, my wife gave me " Ugadi Pachchadi" having all the six tastes known as " Shadruculu "

Another typical feature on this Ugadi Day is Known as " Pachanga Sravanam"

In this Panchanga Sravanam all the details about Income, Expenditure etc are predicted during this Hevalambi Nama Samvatsara

Who predicts the income expenditure??? How do they do that?? Or do you mean that people prepare their income expenditure?? What is hevalambi nama samvatsara??

"Panchanga Sravanam "  is a general practice during Ugadi celebrations.

Veda Scholars predict according to a particular person's  his or her Tidhi, Vara and Nakshatra, the details of that person's Income and expenditure.

And " Hevalambi nama Samvatsara" is the name of the year according to Indian Almanac

Kalyani Nandurkar wrote:

We celebrated Gudhi Padwa yesterday, the beginning of a new year for us. It is celebrated to mark the victory of Shalivahan over the shakas and it also when Shalivahan introduced the calendar that we Maharashtrians still follow, the calendar is called as Shalivahan Shake. We celebrate this day by raising Gudhi or the 'Brahmadhwaj' outside our homes. Gudhi is prepared by draping a new cloth at one end of a bamboo stick, tying a branch of mango leaves and neem leaves and flowers, decorating it with a garland of marigold flowers and a special garland made of sugar medallions (sakhrechi gathi) and placing a copper or silver lota over this. We then draw a Swastik on this lota with kumkum and ashtagandha and this gudhi is then raised outside our window or balcony. This is done in the mornings and the gudhi is taken off at sunset. We eat prasad made of blending together tender new neem leaves and flowers, jaggery, coriander seeds and cumin seeds. This is so that we can avail the goodness and healing as well as cooling properties of neem and help counter the heat of the summer.

I watched this on TV , very interesting and artistic . India is so very rich in its customs and traditions..We too keep a small copper pot which we call chombu filled with well water , covered with mango and nettle leaves and keep a coconut inverted on top of it and decorate it with local fowers . This is smeared with kumkum and haldi and kept near the entrance by the eldest member of the family.

On Ugadi Day, we prepare several  tasty and mouth watering preparations like Atukulu Payasam, Bellam Garelu

( Vadas prepared with jaggery )

In the evening, there will be humorous skits

The idea is to remain happy and laughing all along  the day.