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Tihar (Nepali: तिहार), also known as Deepawali and Yamapanchak, is a five-day Hindu festival celebrated mainly in Nepal and parts of India, such as Darjeeling district, Kalimpong district, Sikkim and Assam and even Bhutan Indians, It is a festival of lights, as dias are illuminated inside and outside the houses for illumination at night. He is known as Swanti among Newars. [1] Bikram Samvat enrollment In the calendar, the festival begins with Kaag Tihar in Triodashi Kartika Krishna Paksha and ends each year with Bhai Tika in Dvitiya Kartik Sukla Paksha. [2]
Chihar is the second largest Nepalese festival after Dashain and is usually designated as a three-day national holiday in Nepal. The festival is new in the sense that it reveres not only elders and gods, but also animals, such as crows, dogs and cows, who have long lived in relationships with people. People make Lakshmi patterns on the floor of living rooms or courtyards using materials such as colored rice, dry flour, colored sand or flower petals near their home, which should become a sacred meeting place for the gods and goddesses of Hinduism, mainly the goddess Lakshmi. [3]
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