इस क्षेत्र का अनुवाद अभी इस भाषा में नहीं हुआ है, इसलिए यह अंग्रेज़ी में दिखाया जा रहा है।
Garhwal · Western Himalaya & Trans-Himalaya
त्योहार
| त्योहार | कब | क्या होता है |
|---|---|---|
| Char Dham kapaat opening and closing | Opening around Akshaya Tritiya (April–May); closing around Bhai Dooj (October–November) | The single event that organises the Garhwali year. Dates are fixed by astrologers at the winter seats, the deities are carried up in procession with dhol, damau and bhankora, and the reverse journey in autumn empties an entire economy of drivers, porters, pony-owners, shopkeepers and priests for six months. |
| Nanda Devi Raj Jat | At long intervals of many years, announced when the omens and the arrangements allow | A pilgrimage of roughly 280 km from Nauti village in Chamoli to Homkund below the Trishul massif, carrying the goddess to her husband's house. It is led by a four-horned ram, which is released at the highest camp and not followed. Popular accounts describe it as twelve-yearly, but the actual gap between jats has varied considerably, and the announcement rather than the calendar is what people wait for. Nanda is claimed as the presiding goddess by both Garhwal and Kumaon, which is why the procession draws from both. |
| Ramman | Baisakh, in the days after the spring equinox festival | The masked ritual cycle at Saloor-Dungra in Chamoli, listed by UNESCO in 2009. Masks, drum patterns and roles are held by specific families, and the year's Bhumiyal Devta is installed in a household chosen by rule for the following twelve months. |
| Igas Bagwal | Eleven days after Diwali, in Kartik | Garhwal's own Diwali, kept eleven days late. The account given locally is that the news, or the returning soldiers, arrived that much later in the hills. Ropes of pine and bhimal fibre are lit and swung in circles — the bhailo — cattle are fed first, and the dhol plays through the night. |
| Harela | The first day of Shravan, mid-July | Seven or nine grains are sown in a basket indoors about ten days ahead, kept dark, and cut on the day — yellow shoots worn behind the ear and placed on the household shrine. It is a germination test as much as a ritual, and has been adopted by the state as a tree-planting day. |
| Phool Dei | The first day of Chaitra, mid-March | Children, mostly girls, go from door to door scattering rice, jaggery and the first flowers of the year on thresholds and are given grain and sweets in return. It marks the start of the local new year and the first day anything is flowering. |
| Ghee Sankranti (Olgia) | The first day of Bhadrapad, mid-August | A day on which everyone is expected to eat ghee, with a roti and a lump of it pressed on the head of children. It falls when the crop is standing and the buffaloes are in full milk, and it doubled as the day tenants and craftsmen brought gifts to their patrons. |
| Basant Panchami and Bikhauti | Magh–Baisakh | The spring turn — sowing songs, the opening of the fair season, and the Baisakhi bathing melas at the confluences, which historically were also the trading fairs of the year. |
| Magh Mela, Uttarkashi | Mid-January | Village deities from across the upper Bhagirathi valley are carried in palanquins into Uttarakashi town for several days of processions, dancing and trade — the one time of year the deities of scattered valleys are physically in the same place. |
| Anduri Utsav at Dayara | August, at the end of the grazing season | A day on the Dayara bugyal above Barsu when herders mark the season's milk yield with butter — smeared, thrown and eaten — before the flocks come down. It has recently been promoted for tourism, but its logic is a herding calendar. |
Garhwal का त्योहार कैलेंडर — क्या मनाया जाता है, कब पड़ता है और क्या होता है। (10)