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Bastar · Central Highlands & Forest Belt
त्योहार
| त्योहार | कब | क्या होता है |
|---|---|---|
| Bastar Dussehra | Hareli Amavasya in Shravan (July–August) to Ashwin Shukla, roughly 75 days | The longest festival of its kind in India, and not a Ramayana observance. It is conducted for Danteshwari and for the several hundred village deities who are invited to Jagdalpur for it, and there is no Ravana effigy and no burning. The cycle opens with Pat Jatra, at which the sal timber for the chariot is brought in and consecrated. Kachan Gadi follows — a girl of the Mirgan community, believed to be entered by Kachan Devi, is laid on a swing of thorns and gives the permission without which the festival cannot proceed. A youth then sits nine days of fast for the festival's success at Jogi Bithai. A heavy wooden chariot, rebuilt from scratch every year by hereditary carpenters and rope-makers who hold the right by village, is drawn through Jagdalpur by teams of Muria youths across several days. On the night of Bhitar Raini the chariot is taken away by the pullers to a grove outside the town and the head of the old ruling house goes out the next morning to retrieve it and eat new rice with them; Bahir Raini follows. Mavli Parghav receives the deity's palanquin arriving from Dantewada. The Muria Durbar assembles village headmen and priests before the ruling family to raise matters from the year. Ohadi sends the visiting deities home. The whole thing is a federation's annual meeting with a chariot attached. |
| Madai | December–March, on a fixed circuit | A moving fair. Each village hosts on its allotted date, and the deities of neighbouring settlements are carried in on angadev poles and palanquins, met with drums, entertained, and sent back. Gaur dancers, cattle trade, salfi and a great deal of visiting. The Madai calendar is the region's social diary. |
| Goncha | Ashadh (June–July), with the Rath Yatra | Bastar's version of the Jagannath car festival, in which spectators fire hollow bamboo tubes loaded with the soft green goncha fruit as the chariot passes. The fruit gives the festival its name and the popping is the festival's signature sound. |
| Hareli | Shravan Amavasya (July–August) | The monsoon farming festival at which agricultural tools and cattle are washed and worshipped, neem branches are fixed above doorways, and gedi stilts are brought out. It is also the day Bastar Dussehra begins. |
| Amus and Navakhani | Bhadrapad (August–September) | New-rice eating. The first grain of the season is offered to the household and clan deities before anyone in the house may eat it, and the date is set village by village by the priest. |
| Chait Parab | Chaitra (March–April) | The spring festival of the Dhurwa and Bhatra households, marking the start of the mahua and forest-collection season, with a village hunt, a shared meal and night-long dancing. |
| Kaksar | Before the sowing rains | The Abujhmaria observance for Kaksar Deo, danced by young men and women at the shrine to secure the crop. |
| Fagun Madai, Dantewada | Phalgun (February–March) | A ten-day fair at the Danteshwari temple drawing villages from across the southern districts, with the deity taken out in procession and a hunt ritual on the closing days. |
Bastar का त्योहार कैलेंडर — क्या मनाया जाता है, कब पड़ता है और क्या होता है। (8)