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<p><b>New page</b></p><div>{{see also|Indian New Year's days}}<br />
{{For|other traditions of celebrating the lunar new year|Lunar New Year}}<br />
{{short description|Telugu and Kannada Hindu new year festival}}<br />
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{{Infobox holiday<br />
|holiday_name = Ugadi<br />
|image = A Happy Ugadi puja tray Telugu Hindu New Year Vaisakhi.jpg<br />
|caption=Ugadi Pachadi with New Year prayer [[Puja (Hinduism)|puja]] tray<br />
|type = Hindu<br />
|nickname = Yugadi, Samvatsaradi<br/>{{nowrap| [[Telugu people|Telugu]] and [[Kannada people|Kannada]] New Year}}<br />
|observedby = [[Hindus]] in [[Telangana]], [[Andhra Pradesh]], [[Karnataka]]<br />
|begins = 1st day of [[Chaitra]]<br />
|date = March (generally), April (occasionally)<br />
|longtype = Religious (Hindu), social, cultural<br />
|frequency = Annual<br />
|celebrations = Muggu-Rangoli, visiting Temples, Feast with Holige and Bevu Bella<br />
|relatedto = [[Puthandu]], [[Gudi Padwa]], and other regional Hindu New Year's days<br />
|alt=|official_name=|litcolor=|significance=|ends=|weekday=|month=|scheduling=|duration=|firsttime=|startedby=|date2021=Tues, 13 April in India, Mon, 12 April in USA <ref>{{Cite web |url=https://www.drikpanchang.com/festivals/yugadi/yugadi-newyear-date.html?geoname-id=1277333&year=2021 |title=2021 Ugadi for Bengaluru, Karnataka |website=Drikpanchang: Hindu Calendar for the World |access-date=16 March 2020}}</ref>}}<br />
{{Hinduism}}<br />
[[File:ఉగాది పచ్చడి.jpg|Ugadi Pachadi|thumb|right]]<br />
'''Ugadi''' or '''Yugadi''', also known as '''Samvatsarādi''' ({{lit|Beginning of the Year}}), is the New Year's Day for the [[States of India|states]] of [[Andhra Pradesh]], [[Telangana]], and [[Karnataka]] in [[India]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Karen-Marie Yust|title=Nurturing Child and Adolescent Spirituality: Perspectives from the World's Religious Traditions|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=_dWh0l-iXHUC&pg=PA228|year=2006|publisher=Rowman & Littlefield|isbn=978-0-7425-4463-5|pages=228–229}}</ref> It is festively observed in these regions on the first day of the Hindu [[lunisolar calendar]] month of [[Chaitra]].<ref name=dalal427>{{cite book|author=Roshen Dalal|title=Hinduism: An Alphabetical Guide|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DH0vmD8ghdMC |year=2010|publisher=Penguin Books|isbn=978-0-14-341421-6|page=427}}</ref> This typically falls in April month of the Gregorian calendar.<ref name=dalal427/><br />
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The day is observed by drawing colourful patterns on the floor called ''[[kolam|Muggulu]]'', mango leaf decorations on doors called ''torana'', buying and giving gifts such as new clothes, giving charity to the poor, oil massage followed by special bath, preparing and sharing a special food called ''pachadi'', and visiting Hindu temples.<ref name="Jagannathan2005p77"/><ref name="Fowler1997p72">{{cite book|author=Jeaneane D. Fowler|title=Hinduism: Beliefs and Practices|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=RmGKHu20hA0C&pg=PA72|year=1997|publisher=Sussex Academic Press|isbn=978-1-898723-60-8|pages=72–73}}</ref> The ''pachadi'' is a notable festive food that combines all flavors – sweet, sour, salty, bitter, astringent and [[piquance|piquant]]. In Telugu and Kannada Hindu traditions, it is a symbolic reminder that one must expect all flavors of experiences in the coming new year and make the most of them.<ref name=narayanan18/><br />
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Ugadi has been an important and historic festival of the Hindus, with medieval texts and inscriptions recording major charitable donations to Hindu temples and community centers on this day.<ref>{{cite book|author=K.V. Raman|title=Sri Varadarajaswami Temple, Kanchi: A Study of Its History, Art and Architecture|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=myK8ZYEIu4YC&pg=PA97|year=2003|publisher=Abhinav Publications|isbn=978-81-7017-026-6|pages=97–98}}</ref> The same day is observed as a New Year by Hindus in many other parts of India, such as [[Puthandu]] in [[Tamil Nadu]] and [[Gudi Padwa]] in [[Maharashtra]].<!--, but sometimes observed a Gregorian day earlier because the lunar day starts and ends in Hindu calendar according to the position of the moon. In Karnataka, the festival is celebrated as Yugadi--><br />
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== Terminology ==<br />
The name Yugadi or Ugadi is derived from the [[Sanskrit]] words ''yuga'' (age) and ''ādi'' (beginning): "the beginning of a new age".<ref name=narayanan18/> Yugadi or Ugadi falls on "''Chaitra Shudhdha Paadyami''" or the first day of the bright half of the Indian month of [[Chaitra]]. This generally falls in late March or early April of the Gregorian calendar.<ref name=dalal427/><ref name="Jagannathan2005p77">{{cite book|author=Maithily Jagannathan|title=South Indian Hindu Festivals and Traditions|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xcIrkKUJH9QC&pg=PA77 |year=2005|publisher=Abhinav Publications|isbn=978-81-7017-415-8|pages=77–78}}</ref><br />
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The [[Kannadiga]] people use the term Yugadi (ಯುಗಾದಿ) and the [[Telugu people]] use the term Ugadi<ref>{{cite news |last1=Mar 25 |first1=TNN / Updated |title=Hyderabad people celebrate Ugadi with food and family amid lockdown {{!}} Hyderabad News – Times of India |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/hyderabad/people-celebrate-ugadi-with-food-and-family-in-hyderabad/articleshow/74807558.cms |access-date=4 April 2021 |work=The Times of India |language=en}}</ref> (ఉగాది)<ref>{{cite news |last1=Mar 31 |first1=TOI-Online |title=Ugadi 2021 date, time and significance of Yugadi – Times of India |url=https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/religion/festivals/ugadi-2021-date-time-and-significance-of-yugadi/articleshow/81773856.cms |access-date=4 April 2021 |work=The Times of India |publisher=Times of india |language=en}}</ref> for this festival.<ref>{{Cite web|last=ಸೋಹೋನಿ|first=ವಿಶ್ವಾಸ|date=2018-03-15|title=ಯುಗಾದಿ ಎಂಬ ಹೊಸ ವರ್ಷ... ಏನಿದರ ಮಹತ್ವ?|url=https://kannada.oneindia.com/festivals/ugadi/significance-and-importance-of-ugadi-festival-136802.html|access-date=2021-04-13|website=kannada.oneindia.com|language=kn}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|title=Ugadi Festival in Telugu {{!}} ఉగాది చరిత్ర విశిష్టత విధానం|url=https://www.intelugu.net/ugadi/|access-date=2021-04-13|website=www.intelugu.net}}</ref><br />
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== Practices ==<br />
[[File:Waterangoli.jpg|thumb|Muggu (rangoli) arrangement in April 2009]]<br />
The Kannada, Kodava, Telugu and the Tulu diaspora in [[Andhra Pradesh]], [[Karnataka]], [[Tamil Nadu]] and [[Kerala]] celebrate the festival with great fanfare; gatherings of the extended family and a sumptuous feast are 'de rigueur'. The day begins early with ritual showers, rubbing the body with perfumed oil, followed by prayers.<ref name="Fowler1997p72"/><br />
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[[File:Ugadi Pacchadi.jpg|thumb|upright=0.8|Ugadi Pacchadi (right) is a symbolic dish prepared by Hindu people on this festival]]<br />
Preparations for the festival begin a week ahead. Houses are given a thorough clean.<ref name="Fowler1997p72"/> People buy new clothes and Dhoti and buy new items for the festival, decorate the entrance of their houses with fresh mango leaves.<ref name="Jagannathan2005p77"/> Mango leaves and coconuts are considered auspicious in the Hindu tradition, and they are used on Ugadi. People also clean the front of their house with water and cow dung paste, then draw colorful floral designs.<ref name="Jagannathan2005p77"/> People offer prayer in temples. The celebration of Ugadi is marked by religious zeal and social merriment.<ref>[[Gabriella Eichinger Ferro-Luzzi]] 91977), [https://www.jstor.org/stable/2741405 Ritual as Language: The Case of South Indian Food Offerings], Current Anthropology, University of Chicago Press, Vol. 18, No. 3 (September 1977), pages 507–514</ref><ref name=narayanan18>{{cite journal | last=Narayanan | first=Vasudha | title=Y51K and Still Counting: Some Hindu Views of Time | journal=Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies | publisher=Butler University | volume=12 | issue=1 | year=1999| pages=17–18 | doi=10.7825/2164-6279.1205 | doi-access=free }}</ref><ref name="Ancient Tree 2009, pages 36-37">Neem - Ancient Tree, Modern Miracle, Warm Earth, National Library of Australia, No. 83, Mar/Apr 2009, pages 36-37</ref><ref>{{cite book|author1=Devagi Sanmugam|author2=Shanmugam Kasinathan|title=Indian Heritage Cooking|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WQWJAAAAQBAJ |year=2011|publisher=Marshall Cavendish|isbn=978-981-4435-08-6|pages=96–97}}</ref><br />
According to Vasudha Narayanan, a professor of Religion at the University of Florida:<ref name="narayanan182" /><br />
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The pacchadi festive dish symbolically reminds the people that the following year – as all of life – will consist of not just sweet experiences, but a combination of sweet, sour, salty, and bitter episodes. Just as the different substances are bound together, one is reminded that no event or episode is wholly good or bad. Even in the midst of bitter experiences, there are sweet moments. One is also reminded that the experience of taste is transitory and ephemeral; so too, is life, and one has to learn to put pain and pleasure in proper temporal perspective.<ref name=narayanan18/><br />
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Special dishes are prepared for the occasion.In Karnataka etables olige, vobattu and mango pickles are made .In [[Andhra Pradesh]] eatables such as "pulihora, bobbatlu (Bhakshalu/ polelu/ oligale), New Year Burelu and Pachadi" and preparations made with raw mango go well with the occasion. Of these, ''pachadi'' (or ''Ugadi pacchadi'') is the most notable, and consists of a chutney-like dish which combines ingredients to give all six flavors of food (''షడ్రుచులు - ṣaḍruculu'') : sweet (''తీపి - tīpi''), sour (''పులుపు - pulupu''), salty (''ఉప్పు - uppu''), pungent (''కారం - kāraṁ''), bitter (''చేదు - cēdu'') and [[Astringent (taste)|astringent]] (''వగరు'' - ''vagaru'').<ref>Gabriella Eichinger Ferro-Luzzi 91977), [https://www.jstor.org/stable/2741405 Ritual as Language: The Case of South Indian Food Offerings], Current Anthropology, University of Chicago Press, Vol. 18, No. 3 (September 1977), pages 507–514</ref> This festive Hindu food is made from tamarind paste (sour), neem flowers (bitter), brown sugar or sweet jaggery (sweet), table salt (salt), green chilli (pungent) and raw mango (astringent). It is a symbolic reminder of complex phases of life one should reasonably expect in the new year.<ref name="narayanan182">{{cite journal|last=Narayanan|first=Vasudha|year=1999|title=Y51K and Still Counting: Some Hindu Views of Time|journal=Journal of Hindu-Christian Studies|publisher=Butler University|volume=12|issue=1|pages=17–18|doi=10.7825/2164-6279.1205|doi-access=free}}</ref><ref name="Ancient Tree 2009, pages 36-37"/><ref>{{cite book|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=WQWJAAAAQBAJ|title=Indian Heritage Cooking|author1=Devagi Sanmugam|author2=Shanmugam Kasinathan|publisher=Marshall Cavendish|year=2011|isbn=978-981-4435-08-6|pages=96–97}}</ref><!-- In Kannada, the greeting is Yugadi Habbada Shubhaashayagalu - ಯುಗಾದಿ ಹಬ್ಬದ ಶುಭಾಶಯಗಳು ("Greetings for the festival of Yugadi") or Hosa varshada shubhashayagalu - ಹೊಸ ವರ್ಷದ ಶುಭಾಶಯಗಳು ("Greetings on the New Year"). [citation needed]<br />
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In Telugu, the traditional greetings for Ugadi are kroththa yeta, ugadi panduga, palukarimpulu or ugadi subhaakankshalu – "క్రొత్త ఏట" / "ఉగాది పండుగ" పలుకరింపులు, లేదా ఉగాది శుభాకాంక్షలు ("Greetings for the festival of Ugadi") and Nutana samvastara shubhaakankshalu -నూతన సంవత్సర శుభాకాంక్షలు ("Greetings on the New Year"). [citation needed] --><br />
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==Related festivals==<br />
The Hindu [[Tamils]] in [[Tamil Nadu]], [[Sri Lanka]], [[Singapore]] and the [[Tamil diaspora]] celebrate [[Puthandu]], or Tamil New Year, on 14 April.<ref>{{Cite web|title=5 interesting facts of Puthandu or the Tamil New Year|url=https://www.timesnownews.com/spiritual/religion/article/5-interesting-facts-of-puthandu-or-the-tamil-new-year/576858|access-date=2021-04-13|website=www.timesnownews.com|language=en}}</ref><br />
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The Hindus of [[Maharashtra]] term the same festival, observed on the same day, [[Gudi Padwa]] ({{lang-mr|गुढी पाडवा}}).<ref>{{cite news |title=Share the love with a delectable Mavinakayi Chitranna recipe as you stay home this Gudi Padwa |url=https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/magazines/panache/share-the-love-with-a-delectable-mavinakayi-chitranna-recipe-as-you-stay-home-this-gudi-padwa/articleshow/74807075.cms |access-date=4 April 2021 |work=The Economic Times |publisher=The economic Times}}</ref><br />
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The Sindhis, people from [[Sindh]], celebrate the same day as [[Cheti Chand]], which is the beginning of their calendar year.<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.hindu.com/2005/04/04/stories/2005040402650300.htm | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20050406060740/http://www.hindu.com/2005/04/04/stories/2005040402650300.htm | url-status=dead | archive-date=6 April 2005 | location=Chennai, India | work=[[The Hindu]] | title=Ugadi a time to rejoice | date=4 April 2005}}</ref><br />
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[[Meitei people|Manipuris]] also celebrate their New Year as [[Sajibu nongma panba|Sajibu Nongma Panba]] on the same day.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2018-03-18|title=Navratri, Gudi Padwa, Sajibu Cheiraoba, Ugadi geetings flood Twitter|url=https://www.thestatesman.com/india/navratri-gudi-padwa-sajibu-cheiraoba-ugadi-geetings-flood-twitter-1502603827.html|access-date=2021-04-13|website=The Statesman|language=en-US}}</ref><br />
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The Hindus of [[Bali]] in [[Indonesia]] also celebrate their new year on the same day as [[Nyepi]].<ref name=":0">{{Cite web|date=2020-03-24|title=Bali's Silent Nyepi and India's Ugadi - A Time for Introspection|url=https://www.softpowermag.com/balis-silent-nyepi-and-indias-ugadi-a-time-for-introspection/|access-date=2021-04-13|website=Center for Soft Power|language=en-US}}</ref><br />
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== See also ==<br />
* [[Hindu calendar]]<br />
* [[Hindu units of time]]<br />
* [[Yuga]]<br />
* [[Vishu]]<br />
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