Makar Makara Sankranti is observed with social festivities such as colourful decorations, rural children going house to house, singing and asking for treats in some areas, melas, dances, kite flying, bonfires and feasts.
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16 Facts About Makara Sankranti
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Makar Sankranti is celebrated when the Sun's ecliptic longitude becomes 270° measured from a fixed starting point which is in opposition to Spica, i e this is a sidereal measure.
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Makara Sankranti is an important pan-Indian solar festival, known by different names though observed on the same date, sometimes for multiple dates around the Makar Sankranti.
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Makar or Makara Sankranti is celebrated in many parts of the Indian subcontinent with some regional variations.
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Festival Makara Sankranti is celebrated for four days in Andhra Pradesh and Telangana.
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Uttarayan, as Makar Makara Sankranti is called in Gujarati, is a major festival in the state of Gujarat which lasts for two days.
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On this auspicious day, girls wear new clothes to visit near and dear ones with a Makara Sankranti offering in a plate and exchange the same with other families.
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In Punjab, Makar Makara Sankranti is celebrated as Maghi which is a religious and cultural festival.
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The first Makara Sankranti experienced by a married woman is of significance as she is invited by her parents and brothers to their houses with her husband for a big feast.
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Makara Sankranti crawled out of eggshells and looked around for anyone like him, but he found none.
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Makara Sankranti remained near the eggshell most of the time and went back near to the empty eggshell, went inside of half of the shell and covered it with another one, and hid there.
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Makara Sankranti was very courageous and powerful, as soon as he came out of the human eggshell, he started shouting and announced to the whole of the world, 'I am the first to be born in this earth, I am the eldest on the earth, no one is elder to me in this earth.
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Makara Sankranti named himself Subrai and declared to the whole of the earth that he is the ruler of this earth and king of this universe.
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In West Bengal, Makara Sankranti, known as Poush Makara Sankranti named after the Bengali month in which it falls, is celebrated as a harvest festival Poush Parbon.
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