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Holi Festival o Colours | |
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Teep | Hindu |
Celebrations |
Nicht afore: Holika Bonfire On Holi: spray colours on ithers, dance, pairty; eat festival delicacies[1] |
Begins | Phalgun Purnima or Pooranmashi (Full Moon) |
Date | Phalguna Purnima |
Frequency | annual |
Holi (pronunciation: /ˈhoʊliː/; Sanskrit: होली Holī) is a ware festival, an aa kent as the festival o colours or the festival o love.[3][4] It is an auncient Hindu releegious festival which haes acome popular wi non-Hindus in mony pairts o Sooth Asie, as well as fowk o ither commonties ootside Asie.[5]
References[eedit | eedit soorce]
- ↑ Holi: Splashed with colors of friendship Hinduism Today, Hawaii (2011)
- ↑ "Holidays in India, Month of March 2014". Government of India. Retrieved 8 January 2014.
- ↑ Yudit Greenberg, Encyclopedia of Love in World Religions, Volume 1, ISBN 978-1851099801, page 212
- ↑ The New Oxford Dictionary of English (1998) ISBN 0-19-861263-X - p.874 "Holi /'həʊli:/ noun a Hindu spring festival ...".
- ↑ Ebeling, Karin (2010), Holi, an Indian Festival, and its Reflection in English Media; Die Ordnung des Standard und die Differenzierung der Diskurse: Akten des 41. Linguistischen Kolloquiums in Mannheim 2006, 1, 107, ISBN 978-3631599174