Makar Sankranti 2023 know the importance of the day Marathi News

Makar Sankranti 2023: The new year has begun and the first festival of the new year is Makar Sankranti. (Makar Sankranti). Makar Sankranti is an agricultural festival that falls in the month of Pausha in India. It is an important Indian festival related to the solar calendar. Indian culture is an agricultural culture. On this day, women give each other varieties of grains that came in the fields. Wives take Ukhana.

Makar Sankranti is called Sankranti in Maharashtra. Makar Sankranti (Uttarayan / Maghi / Sankranti), also known as Mokor Sonkranti in West Bengal and Magha Sankranti in Nepal. In this ‘Sankranti’ means ‘transition’. This day is considered to be the transit day of Sun in Capricorn. Now in the Hindu calendar the sun moves towards the north.

Solstice on January 15 in leap years

Due to the addition of one day in the leap year, there may be a slight difference in the date of Makar Sankranti. Makar Sankranti falls on 15 January in a leap year. However, in other years the solstice falls on 14 January.

Festivals associated with Makar Sankranti are known by various names such as Magh Bihu in Assam, Maghi in Punjab, Maghi Saji in Himachal Pradesh, Maghi Sangrand or Uttarayan in Jammu, Sakrat in Haryana, Sakrat in Rajasthan, Sakrat in Central India, Pongal. Uttarayan in Tamil Nadu, Gujarat and Uttar Pradesh, Ghughuti in Uttarakhand, Dahi Chura in Bihar, Makar Sankranti in Odisha, Karnataka, Maharashtra, Goa, West Bengal (also known as Pausha Sankranti), Uttar Pradesh (also known as Khichdi Sankranti) Sankranti in Uttarakhand (also known as Uttarayani) or simply, Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, Magha Sankranti (Nepal), Songkran (Thailand), Thingyan (Myanmar), Mohan Songkran (Cambodia), and Sishur Senkrath (Kashmir).

Many social activities and festivals are celebrated with great joy and enthusiasm on Makar Sankranti. Social festivals such as colorful decorations, village children going door to door, singing songs and asking for gifts, fairs, dances, kite flying, bonfires and feasts are also celebrated in some areas. Many observers go to holy rivers or lakes and take a bath to thank the Sun. Every twelve years, Hindus celebrate Makar Sankranti with the Kumbh Mela. One of the largest mass pilgrimages in the world, an estimated 60 to 100 million people attend the event. In this event, they pray to the sun and take a bath at the Prayagraj confluence of the rivers Ganga and Yamuna.

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