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🕉️ Pitra Paksha
🕉️ Pitra Paksha (पितृ पक्ष) Pitra Paksha also called Shraddha Paksha, is a sacred period in the Hindu calendar dedicated to remembering and honoring deceased ancestors (Pitrs). It is traditionally observed for about 15 lunar days, beginning on Purnima and ending on Amavasya, which is known as Sarva Pitru Amavasya or Mahalaya Amavasya.🌿 SignificanceAccording to…
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Dev Diwali Festival
Dev Diwali or Dev Deepawali is a Hindu festival celebrated in the month of ‘kartik’, it is a festival of great pomp in Varanasi, in Uttar Pradesh. It is the “Festival of the lights of the gods” and falls on the kartik ‘purnima’ (full moon day), about fifteen days after the celebration of Diwali –…
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Hindu education
The Vedic religions, Buddhism, and Jainism share a regional culture located around northeastern India. Ancient India had two main schools of thought: the Shramana religions and the Vedic religions (the latter continuing today in Hinduism). When a family wishes for their son to become a Hindu priest, they know they must send him to a…
Tourist Guide in Varanasi, Pintu Biki Blog, guided tours in India
Vanarasi, also known as Benares, is my home: to know it is to love it, and I have known and loved it since my birth.
My name is Pintu Biki. If you need a tour guide in Varanasi, I offer you my life experience and more than ten years of guiding in this city located on the banks of the sacred Ganges River.