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10 hours ago · Diwali ( English: / dɪˈwɑːliː /; Deepavali, [4] IAST: Dīpāvalī) is the Hindu festival of lights, with variations celebrated in other Indian religions. [a] It symbolises the spiritual "victory of light over darkness, good over evil, and knowledge over ignorance".
10 hours ago · Buddhist version. In the Buddhist variant of the Ramayana ( Dasaratha Jataka ), Dasharatha was king of Benares and not Ayodhya. Rama (called Rāmapaṇḍita in this version) was the son of Kaushalya, first wife of Dasharatha. Lakṣmaṇa (Lakkhaṇa) was a sibling of Rama and son of Sumitra, the second wife of Dasharatha.
1 day ago · A page from the Hindu calendar 1871-72. The Hindu calendar, also called Panchanga ( Sanskrit: पञ्चाङ्ग ), is one of various lunisolar calendars that are traditionally used in the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia, with further regional variations for social and Hindu religious purposes. They adopt a similar underlying ...
