Happy Ugadi Festival is celebrated every year and this year Ugadi 2015 2015 is celebrated on Saturday, 21 March 2015. You can get the best ugadi 2015 greetings, images, wishes and pachadi recipe, which you might like to view and share with your online and offline friends.
This Festival having three names, ugadi/yugadi and gudi padwa. In Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh it’s called ugadi/yugadi and in Maharashtra it’s called gudi padwa.
When is Ugadi? | ||
| Year | Day | Date |
|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Friday | April 8th |
| 2015 | Saturday | March 21st |
| 2014 | Monday | March 31st |
| 2013 | Thursday | April 11th |
| 2012 | Friday | March 23rd |
Ugadi is the Telegu New Year's Day for the people of the Deccan region of India.
It is a public holiday in the following regions: Karnataka, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Uttar Pradesh
In Maharashtra it is known as Gudipadawa.
The name Yugadi or Ugadi is derived from the Sanskrit words yuga (age) and ādi (starting) - 'the beginning of a new age'.
The legend behind this festival is that Lord Brahma created the universe on Ugadi.
The date of Ugadi is based on calculations of the position of the moon dating back to 12th century. Ugadi begins on the first new moon after the Spring Equinox. Ugadi is celebrated the next morning as an Indian day starts from sunrise.
This date usually falls in late march or early April in the western calendar and this date moon signifies a change in the seasons and essentially means Ugadi is a spring festival.
The nine day long spring festival of Vasanta Navratri (Chaitra Navratri) begins on this day and concludes on Ram Navami. It is believed that the creator of the Hindu pantheon Lord Brahma started creation on this day - 'Chaitra Suddha Padhyami' or the Ugadi day. The famed Indian Mathematician Bhaskaracharya's astronomical calculations in the 12th century determined the date of Ugadi from the sunrise on as the beginning of the New Year, new month and new day.
Preparations for Ugadi begin a week in advance and include customs common to many spring festivals such as house cleaning and buying new clothes. On the day of Ugadi, a tradition is to get up before dawn for an Abhyang - a head bath an after massaging with sesame oil.
Ugadi heralds the arrival of Spring and warmer weather. As such it is a joyus festival signifying growth and properity and as with all New Year festivals it is a chance to put the errors of the past behind, make predictions and a good time to start new ventures.
A customary food prepared during Ugadi is Bevu Bella, a paste made from jaggery (sugar), neem buds, tamarind juice and raw mango. The paste combines several sweet and sour tastes. These different tastes are intended to remind anyone tasting the paste that life is a mixture of happy and sad events.
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