Executive Officer Paper II · 6 Hindu Festivals and Classical Fine Arts · APPSC Paper I
6.1 Festivals and Fine Arts notes
3 notes, in reading order.
- 6.1.1Hindu festivals by month and region
India's big Hindu festivals (Ugadi, Rama Navami, Vinayaka Chavithi, Dasara, Deepavali, Sankranti, Shivaratri, Holi) run on the lunar calendar except solar Sankranti, each carries a Puranic story, and every region keeps them under its own name, alongside great gatherings such as the Kumbh Mela, Pushkaralu and Puri's Rath Yatra. (Month-by-month calendar and Andhra temple festivals: HC-FA-03.)
Standard · 19 min · Read here - 6.1.2Classical fine arts of Indian origin
India's fine arts (painting, sculpture, music, dance and poetry, with architecture and drama) trace themselves to the Vedas and Bharata's Natya Shastra; they live on as classical dances, the Carnatic and Hindustani music systems, three temple styles, schools of painting and sculpture, Sanskrit and Telugu literature, and a growing UNESCO list.
Standard · 19 min · Read here - 6.1.3Festival calendar by Telugu month and AP temple festivals
The Telugu year runs on the lunar amanta calendar from Ugadi in Chaitra to Holi in Phalguna; this note walks through it month by month, with the tithi of each festival, and then lists the Andhra temple festivals and village jataras that an Endowments officer must know.
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