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<p>Enhanced and reorganized content</p> <table style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122;" data-mw="interface"> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <col class="diff-marker" /> <col class="diff-content" /> <tr class="diff-title" lang="en"> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">← Older revision</td> <td colspan="2" style="background-color: #fff; color: #202122; text-align: center;">Revision as of 12:01, 20 February 2026</td> </tr><tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l1">Line 1:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 1:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Gorehabba''' <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">or '''Gore Habba''' </del>is a festival <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">or ritual </del>in [[India]], of <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">splashing </del>[[<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">cow dung</del>]] on <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">each other</del>. <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">This </del>festival is celebrated a day after [[Diwali]]'s [[<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Balipadyami</del>]] <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">in </del>the <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">small </del>village of [[<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Gummatapura</del>]] in [[<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Karnataka</del>]], India.<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;</del>ref name="<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">diwalifestival</del>"<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&gt;</del>{{<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">cite </del>web | url=http://www.diwalifestival.org/gorehabba.html | <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">title</del>=<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Gorehabba </del>| publisher=Society for the Confluence of Festivals in India (SCFI) | <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">accessdate</del>=<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">2013</del>-<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">04</del>-<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">12</del>}}<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;</del>/ref<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&gt;&lt;</del>ref<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&gt;</del>{{cite web|url=http://www.<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">navhindtimes</del>.<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">in</del>/<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">panorama</del>/<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">strange</del>-<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">diwali</del>-<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">celebration </del>|title=<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">A Strange Diwali Celebration </del>|publisher=[[<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The Navhind Times</del>]] |date=<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">October 16, 2011 </del>|<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">accessdate</del>=<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">2013</del>-<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">04</del>-<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">12 </del>|<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">author</del>=<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Phadnis</del>, <del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Shekher </del>|<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">url</del>-<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">status=dead </del>|<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">archiveurl</del>=https://<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">web</del>.<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">archive</del>.<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">org</del>/<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">web</del>/<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">20120128130221</del>/<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">http</del>://www.<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">navhindtimes</del>.<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">in</del>/<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">panorama</del>/<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">strange</del>-diwali-celebration |<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">archivedate</del>=<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">January 28, 2012 </del>}}<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&lt;</del>/ref<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&gt;</del></div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">{{pp|small=yes}}</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">{{Short description|Hindu festival celebrated in Karnataka, India}}</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; 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font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>'''Gorehabba''' <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">({{Lit|cow dung festival}} in [[Kannada]]) </ins>is a <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">local Hindu [[folklore]] </ins>festival <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">celebrated in a village called Gumatapura,&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{Cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=pVZuAAAAMAAJ&amp;amp;q=gore+habba |title=Encyclopaedia of the Folk Culture of Karnataka: Introductory articles |date=1991 |publisher=Institute of Asian Studies |language=en}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; a [[Kannada]]-speaking village which lies on the border shared by Karnataka and Tamil Nadu.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{Cite web |date=7 November 2021 |title=Cattle Royale: Dung Fight Marks End of Diwali |url=https://www.abc.net.au/news/2021-11-08/cattle-royale-dung-fight-marks-end-of-diwali/100601634 |access-date=16 October 2025 |website=[[ABC News (Australia)|ABC News]]}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref name=":1"&amp;gt;{{Cite web |last=Madhav |first=Pramod |date=4 November 2024 |title=Why does this Tamil Nadu village throw cow dung to end Diwali? |url=https://www.indiatoday.</ins>in<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">/india/tamil-nadu/story/cow-dung-flinging-festival-chaniyadi-tamil-nadu-end-of-diwali-thalavadi-village-erode-2627614-2024-11-04 |accessdate=10 January 2025 |publisher=</ins>[[India <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Today</ins>]]<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{Cite news |date=18 November 2020 |title=Villagers celebrate unique cow dung splashing ritual |url=https://www.thehindu.com/news/cities/Coimbatore/villagers-celebrate-unique-cow-dung-splashing-ritual/article33127584.ece |access-date=26 October 2025 |website=[[The Hindu]]}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; Gumatapura</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">also spelled ''Gumatapur,'' was formerly part </ins>of [[<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Chamarajanagar district]] in Karnataka and was transferred to Tamil Nadu following the [[Unification of Karnataka|States Reorganisation Act</ins>]]<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{Cite web|title=Chamarajanagar: People celebrate Gore festival in Gumatapur village </ins>on <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">the border of Chamarajanagar! in kannada|url=https://kannada.asianetnews.com/gallery/state/dung-festival-gore-habba-celebrated-in-gumtapur-near-chamarajanagar-gvd-3ln1ruz|website=Asianet Suvarna News|access-date=2026-01-31|language=kn|last=Asianet news|last2=|last3=|last4=|first=Kannada|url-status=live}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{Cite web|title=The Gore festival celebrated every year in Gumatapur village of Chamarajanagar district in Kannada|url=https://tv9kannada.com/photo-gallery/chamarajnagar-gummatapuras-goore-habba-a-celebration-of-unity-and-tradition-kannada-news-vkb-928916.html|website=TV9 Kannada|date=2024-11-04|access-date=2026-01-31|language=kn|first=TV9|last=Kannada}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref name="News18Gorehabba"&amp;gt;{{cite news</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"> |title=The Gore festival|url=https://kannada.news18</ins>.<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">com/news/chamarajanagar/dung-</ins>festival<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">-gore-habba-celebrated-in-gumtapur-near-chamarajanagar-1445210.html|work=News18 Kannada|publisher=News18|language=kn|access-date=31 January 2026}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Dedicated to [[Beerappa]], a god worshipped by [[Kuruba|Kurubas]] community. It </ins>is celebrated a day after [[Diwali]]'s [[<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Balipratipada|Bali Padyami</ins>]]<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">'','' whereby </ins>the <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">festival involves participants playfully throwing or smearing [[cow dung]] on one another as part of a local ritual tradition.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{Cite web |date=7 November 2021 |title=This Indian </ins>village <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">celebrates cow dung festival to mark end </ins>of <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Diwali |url=https://www.hindustantimes.com/india-news/this-indian-village-celebrates-cow-dung-festival-to-mark-end-of-diwali-101636307698144.html |access-date=6 November 2025 |website=</ins>[[<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Hindustan Times</ins>]] <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">|language=en}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{Cite web |author=Phadnis |first=Shekher |date=16 October 2011 |title=A Strange Diwali Celebration |url=http://www.navhindtimes.</ins>in<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">/panorama/strange-diwali-celebration |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120128130221/http://www.navhindtimes.in/panorama/strange-diwali-celebration |archivedate=28 January 2012 |publisher=[[The Navhind Times]] |access-date=12 April 2013}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">== Background ==</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">{{Main|Beerappa|Kuruba}}</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">{{See also|Cow dung#In Hinduism}}</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">As per local legends, god [</ins>[<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Beerappa]], who is worshipped by the </ins>[<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[Kuruba</ins>]] <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">community</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">was born from cow dung; therefore, the festival is celebrated by splashing cow dung on one another.&amp;lt;ref name="diwalifestival13"&amp;gt;{{Cite web |last=Sinha |first=Anamika |date=25 October 2025 |title=Inside </ins>India<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">'s wildest Diwali celebration: Villagers in Karnataka throw cow dung to mark end of festivities |url=https://www.financialexpress.com/life/lifestyle-inside-indias-wildest-diwali-celebration-villagers-in-karnataka-throw-cow-dung-to-mark-end-of-festivities-watch-4021543/ |access-date=26 October 2025 |website=The Financial Express}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; It is also believed that participating in the cow dung splashing game cures people of all kinds of diseases, which is one of the reasons for keeping the tradition alive, even after hundreds of years</ins>.<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&amp;lt;</ins>ref name="<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">diwalifestival2</ins>"<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&amp;gt;</ins>{{<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Cite </ins>web <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">|title=Gorehabba </ins>|url=http://www.diwalifestival.org/gorehabba.html |<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">accessdate</ins>=<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">12 April 2013 </ins>|publisher=Society for the Confluence of Festivals in India (SCFI)<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[Cow dung]] has [[Hindu rituals|ritual importance in Hinduism]], where it is believed to have cleansing properties and is used in purification rituals.&amp;lt;ref name=":0"&amp;gt;{{cite journal |last1=Daria |first1=S. |last2=Islam |first2=M. R. |date=2021 </ins>|<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">title</ins>=<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The use of cow dung and urine to cure COVID</ins>-<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">19 in India: A public health concern |journal=[[The International Journal of Health Planning and Management]] |volume=36 |issue=5 |pages=1950–1952 |doi=10.1002/hpm.3257 |pmc=8239506 |pmid=34037266}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; According to ''[[Shiva Purana]]'', certain [[Ritual purification|ceremonial ablutions]] on the [[Lingam|linga]] are performed with [[panchagavya]] that contains a mix of five substances obtained from cows viz., [[Cow urine|cow's urine]] (''gojala''), dung (''gomaya''), [[Cow milk|milk]] (''[[Kshira|kṣīra]]''), [[Dahi (curd)|curd]] (''dadhi'') and [[ghee]] (''ājya'').&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{Cite book |last=Shastri |first=J. L. |url=http://archive.org/details/dli.bengal.10689.20655 |title=The Siva</ins>-<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Purana, Part 1 |date=1950 |publisher=[[Motilal Banarsidass]]</ins>}}<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&amp;lt;</ins>/ref<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&amp;gt;</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">== Festival ==</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">The festival is around 300 years old.&amp;lt;</ins>ref <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">name=":1" /&amp;gt; The ceremony begins early in the morning, when men, women and children start collecting cow dung from all over the village and dump it behind the local Beerappa Temple. Later, girls and &amp;lt;!-- half-naked --&amp;gt; boys go around the village collecting oil and butter to offer puja at the temple. They then collect more oil and butter and offer ''puja'' at the Karappa Temple, located one kilometre from the Beerappa temple.&amp;lt;ref name="deccan"&amp;gt;</ins>{{cite web<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">|date=8 November 2010 |language=en |publisher=[[Deccan Herald]] |title=Dung-slingers aim at peace </ins>|url=http://www.<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">deccanherald</ins>.<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">com/content</ins>/<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">111150</ins>/<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">dung-slingers-aim-peace.html}}&amp;lt;!-- auto-translated from Catalan by Module:CS1 translator </ins>--<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&amp;gt;&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt; Once the [[Puja (Hinduism)|puja]] is done, the villagers return in procession. On the way back, one person is designated as the chadikora (sneak). Then a moustache and beard made of herbs are fixed on him, he sits on a donkey and is taken to the temple in procession.&amp;lt;ref name="deccan" /&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref name="diwalifestival"&amp;gt;{{Cite web | url=http://www.diwalifestival.org/gorehabba.html </ins>| title=<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Gorehabba </ins>| publisher=<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Society for the Confluence of Festivals in India (SCFI) | accessdate=12 April 2013}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">After reaching the temple, the chadikora's moustache and beard are removed and buried in the pit where the dung heap has been deposited. Then, a puja is offered on the cow dung heap and the celebration begins. The first act after the puja is to sprinkle dung on the priest, which is considered the signal to start throwing cow dung at each other. Each person in the village is pushed into the pit and smeared with cow dung. At the same time, thousands of people from the surrounding villages gather to watch the ceremony. &amp;lt;ref name="diwalifestival" /&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref name="deccan" /&amp;gt;</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Later, an effigy of the chadikora is made and taken to a nearby hill called Kondigekara Gudda to be burned, along with a chicken. The villagers cleanse themselves in the lake, return to the village and worship the chadikora.&amp;lt;ref name="diwalifestival" /&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref name="deccan" /&amp;gt;</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Similar to Gorehabba, people in the village of Kairuppala near [[Aspari]] in the [[Kurnool district]] of [</ins>[<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Andhra Pradesh]] celebrate </ins>[<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[Pidakala War</ins>]]<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{Cite web </ins>|date=<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">7 April 2017 |title=People are throwing cow dung at each other </ins>|<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">url</ins>=<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">https://metro.co.uk/2017/04/07/people-are-throwing-cow-dung-at-each-other-for-good-health</ins>-<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">6559947/ |access</ins>-<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">date=11 June 2025 |website=Metro </ins>|<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">language</ins>=<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">en}}&amp;lt;/ref&amp;gt;</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">In 2025</ins>, <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">American YouTuber [[Tyler Oliveira]] released videos in which he participated in the festival.&amp;lt;ref&amp;gt;{{cite web |last=Basak |first=Anuj |date=24 October 2025 </ins>|<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">title=What is Gorehabba? YouTuber Tyler Oliveira seen screaming "They are going to kill me" as he participates in India's cow</ins>-<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">dung throwing festival </ins>|<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">url</ins>=https://<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">www</ins>.<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">soapcentral</ins>.<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">com</ins>/<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">pop-culture</ins>/<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">news-what-gorehabba-youtuber-tyler-oliveira-seen-screaming-they-going-kill-me-participates-india-s-cow-dung-throwing-festival |access-date=26 October 2025 |website=[[SoapCentral]]}}&amp;lt;</ins>/<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">ref&amp;gt;&amp;lt;ref name="diwalifestival12"&amp;gt;{{Cite web |last=Sinha |first=Anamika |date=25 October 2025 |title=Inside India's wildest Diwali celebration: Villagers in Karnataka throw cow dung to mark end of festivities |url=https</ins>://www.<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">financialexpress</ins>.<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">com</ins>/<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">life</ins>/<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">lifestyle-inside-indias-wildest</ins>-diwali-celebration<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">-villagers-in-karnataka-throw-cow-dung-to-mark-end-of-festivities-watch-4021543/ </ins>|<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">access-date=26 October 2025 |website</ins>=<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">[[The Financial Express (India)|The Financial Express]]</ins>}}<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&amp;lt;</ins>/ref<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">&amp;gt;</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">== See also ==</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">* [[Pidakala War]] – a cow dung fight following [[Ugadi]] in Andhra Pradesh, India</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">* [[Carnival of Ivrea]] – an orange fight in Italy</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">* ''[[La Tomatina]]'' – a tomato fight in Spain</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-side-deleted"></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div><ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">* [[Songkran (Thailand)|Songkran]] – during which water fights are held in Thailand &amp;lt;!-- note: water fights are also held outside of thailand, but the general songkran article only briefly mentions them --&amp;gt;</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== References ==</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== References ==</div></td></tr> <tr><td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno" id="mw-diff-left-l5">Line 5:</td> <td colspan="2" class="diff-lineno">Line 37:</td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><br></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== External links ==</div></td><td class="diff-marker"></td><td style="background-color: #f8f9fa; color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #eaecf0; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>== External links ==</div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* [https://archive.<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">is</del>/20130628175344/http://www.bbcmotiongallery.com/gallery/clip/1B012272_013.do Gorehabba festival celebrant piles cow dung]<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, </del>BBC Motion <del style="font-weight: bold; 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[[Al Jazeera]]. 24 October 2025.</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* [http://www.deccanherald.com/content/111150/dung-slingers-aim-peace.html Dung-slingers aim at peace]<del style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">, </del>Deccan Herald</div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* [https://archive.<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">today</ins>/20130628175344/http://www.bbcmotiongallery.com/gallery/clip/1B012272_013.do Gorehabba festival celebrant piles cow dung]<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. [[</ins>BBC Motion <ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">Gallery]].</ins></div></td></tr> <tr><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="−"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #ffe49c; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div> </div></td><td class="diff-marker" data-marker="+"></td><td style="color: #202122; font-size: 88%; border-style: solid; border-width: 1px 1px 1px 4px; border-radius: 0.33em; border-color: #a3d3ff; vertical-align: top; white-space: pre-wrap;"><div>* [http://www.deccanherald.com/content/111150/dung-slingers-aim-peace.html Dung-slingers aim at peace]<ins style="font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;">. 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<p></p> <p><b>New page</b></p><div>&#039;&#039;&#039;Gorehabba&#039;&#039;&#039; or &#039;&#039;&#039;Gore Habba&#039;&#039;&#039; is a festival or ritual in [[India]], of splashing [[cow dung]] on each other. This festival is celebrated a day after [[Diwali]]&#039;s [[Balipadyami]] in the small village of [[Gummatapura]] in [[Karnataka]], India.&lt;ref name=&quot;diwalifestival&quot;&gt;{{cite web | url=http://www.diwalifestival.org/gorehabba.html | title=Gorehabba | publisher=Society for the Confluence of Festivals in India (SCFI) | accessdate=2013-04-12}}&lt;/ref&gt;&lt;ref&gt;{{cite web|url=http://www.navhindtimes.in/panorama/strange-diwali-celebration |title=A Strange Diwali Celebration |publisher=[[The Navhind Times]] |date=October 16, 2011 |accessdate=2013-04-12 |author=Phadnis, Shekher |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20120128130221/http://www.navhindtimes.in/panorama/strange-diwali-celebration |archivedate=January 28, 2012 }}&lt;/ref&gt;<br /> <br /> == References ==<br /> {{Reflist}}<br /> <br /> == External links ==<br /> * [https://archive.is/20130628175344/http://www.bbcmotiongallery.com/gallery/clip/1B012272_013.do Gorehabba festival celebrant piles cow dung], BBC Motion gallery<br /> * [http://www.deccanherald.com/content/111150/dung-slingers-aim-peace.html Dung-slingers aim at peace], Deccan Herald<br /> <br /> {{Hinduism-stub}}<br /> {{reli-festival-stub}}<br /> <br /> [[Category:Diwali]]<br /> [[Category:Hindu festivals]]<br /> [[Category:Religious festivals in India]]</div>

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