Holi 2023 Holi is a Hindu Festival.It is the festival of Colour. The festival is celebrated almost all over the India.This festival celebrated in the Spring season.Spring season is called Basanta Rutu in Indian language.It is composed of two month Falguna and Chaitra of Hindu Calendar. This festival is celebrated for two day.In the first day Holika Dahan ( Burning of Holika ) is observed and in the second day Colourfull Holi festival is celebrated.Holika Dahan is observed on Falguna Purnima tithi ( Full moon day ) of Hindu Calendar.The Colourfull Holi festival observes on Chaitra Krishna Paksha Pratipada tithi ( First day of Chaitra month ) of Hindu Calendar. In this year Holika Dahan falls on 7 March 2023 and Holi falls on 8 March 2023 of the Gregorian Calendar.In Holika Dahan a lot of wood are kept in one place for burning. The wood are then burned.People moves around the fire.Some people try to jump over the fire.In Holi festival Hindu People smear powder col...
Baisakha Mela/Nrusingha Chaturdashi
Baisakha Mela is organized every year in the Nrusinghanath temple, Paikmal of Bargarh district in Odisha. It starts from Baisakha Sukla Paksha Dashami tithi and ends in Chaturdashi tithi. The chaturdashi tithi is called Nrusingha Chaturdashi. This day was the incarnation day of god Bishnu(Vishnu) as
Nrusingha. In Baisakha Mela a great jajna is
organized by chanting the Nrusingha mantra 100008 times.There are so many cultural program organized at
night in this time by the temple administration.
The
name of god of Nrusinghanath temple, Paikmal is Marjara
Keshari. Nrusinghanath is the title provided to the god Marjara
Keshari. In odia language Marjara means Cat and Keshari means Lion. Marjara
Keshari is Cat Lion god.The god is considered as ,god has the head of cat and body
of lion.
God Marjara Keshari Image
The puja procedure of god Marjara Keshari is something different from
the other hindu god.Only Brahmachari (unmarried) Brahman can do the puja(worship).The age of the Brahman between 8 to 22 years.
According to Bishnupuran there was a King named Hiranyakashipu. God Brahma had blessed him that he neither die in day nor die
in night, neither die inside the home nor die outside the home, neither killed
by human nor killed by animal, neither die in the land nor die in the sky and never
killed by any weapon.
Hiranyakashipu thought that he will never die
and he was giving torture to the saints. He was giving punishment to the people
who worshiped god Bishnu. He banned worship of god Bishnu in his Kingdom. His
son Prahlad became a great devotee of god Bishnu. He ordered his son to stop
worship of Bishnu. But his son Prahlad continued to worship god Bishnu. So
Hiranyakashipu wants to kill his son. When he tried to kill his son, god Bishnu
appeared as Nrusingha and protected Prahlad and killed Hiranyakashipu.
God Nrusingha Image
Due to
the blessing god Bishnu had taken Nrusingha avatar (incarnation).In odia Nru means human and Singha means Lion. God Nrusingha is half human and
half lion. The face of god as lion and body of god as human being. He killed
Hiranyakashipu by his nail of hand in the evening by placing Hiranyakashipu in
his lap at the door below the wall band. He killed Hiranyakashipu in this
condition because of the blessing of god Brahma. God Nrusingha is neither human nor animal, evening is neither day nor night, by
placing Hiranyakashipu in the lap he placed him neither in the land nor in the sky, the place near the door below the wall band is neither inside
of a house nor outside of a house and nail is not a weapon.
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