इस क्षेत्र का अनुवाद अभी इस भाषा में नहीं हुआ है, इसलिए यह अंग्रेज़ी में दिखाया जा रहा है।
South Konkan · Western Coastal Strip
त्योहार
| त्योहार | कब | क्या होता है |
|---|---|---|
| Ganesh Chaturthi | Bhadrapada, August–September | The event the year is organised around. Households keep the idol for one and a half, five, seven, ten or twenty-one days, and the migrant population returns from Mumbai in such numbers that special trains and hundreds of extra buses are run for it. Villages that are half empty in June are full in September. |
| Shimga | Phalgun, February–March, over several days to a fortnight | The Konkan's Holi, and a bigger festival here than Diwali. The village deity's palkhi moves house to house, Naman and Khele are performed at night, romat processions run in Sindhudurg, and the licence to satirise anyone in the village lasts exactly as long as the festival does. |
| The Dashavatar season | Roughly Diwali to the onset of the monsoon | Not a festival but a calendar. Professional troupes tour a fixed circuit of village temples, performing overnight on dates fixed by each village's vow or jatra, and the season closes when the rains make the mand unusable. |
| Angnewadi jatra | Announced each year by the deity's kaul, usually in February | The Bharadi Devi fair near Masure in Sindhudurg, whose date is not fixed in advance but declared by the kaul, so lakhs of people — including migrants in Mumbai — arrange leave around an answer given by a flower falling from an image. |
| Kunkeshwar Mahashivratri yatra | Magh, February–March | Several days of fair on the sand at Devgad around the beach temple, with stalls, night performances and a crowd drawn from the whole southern coast. |
| Marleshwar yatra | Makar Sankranti, mid-January | Described as the marriage of Marleshwar and Girijadevi, with a procession up to the cave shrine beside the waterfall and a fair at the foot of the climb. |
| Narali Purnima | Shravan full moon, August | A coconut offered to the sea and the resumption of fishing after the monsoon closure, kept in every fishing village on this coast as in the north. |
| Nag Panchami and patoli | Shravan, July–August | Snake images drawn or worshipped, no digging or ploughing on the day, and patoli steamed in turmeric leaves — one of the few festivals in the region defined by a specific dish. |
| Velas turtle festival | February–April | A village-run event around the olive ridley hatchlings, which has kept a nesting beach protected by making the hatch worth more to the village intact than dug up. |
South Konkan का त्योहार कैलेंडर — क्या मनाया जाता है, कब पड़ता है और क्या होता है। (9)