Gudi Pawda (Photo Credit: Instagram@_sam__95)
New Delhi:
Gudi Padwa is celebrated to mark the end of gloomy winters and the start of a new year with sunshine and summers. The new year of Marathi and Konkani Hindus falls on the month of Chaitra according to the Hindu calendar. The festival of Gudi Pawa is also referred to Samvastar Padvo in several places when people decorate their homes with rangoli, dish out regional delicacies and sweets and hoist Gudi flags from their homes. Ugadi celebration held in Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka falls with the Maharashtrian New Year.
This year Gudi Pawda or Samvastar Padvo falls on March 25th
On 2002 Gudi Padwa Marathi Vikram Samvat 2077 starts
Pratipada Tithi begins at 2.57 PM on March 24th
Pratipada Tithi ends at 5.26 PM on March 25th.
In Lune-Solar calendar a year is divided into days and months based on their position on the Solar system while in the solar calendar divides a year depending on the position of the Sun only. Hindu New Years are celebrated twice in different states. It also has different names. Bengali, Odiya, Tamil, Punjabi new year celebrated as Pana Sankranti, Naba Barsha, Punthandu, Vaishaki respectively happens on the 15th April after the Chaitra months ends.
Gudi Padwa commemorates the day when Lord Ram was coronated as the king of Ayodhya after he comes back on completing an exile with brother Laxman and wife Sita. The Gudi flag symbolises victory and hence is held high at houses.
