Pana Sankranti (Maha Vishuba Sankranti) offerings with Bela Pana
Official name
Pana Sankranti, Maha Bishuba Sankranti, Odia Nua Barsa
Also called
Maha Bisuba Sankranti
Observed by
Odias
Type
Social, Cultural, Religious
Significance
Odia New Year
Celebrations
Meru Jatra, Jhaamu Jatra, Chadak Parba
Observances
Pujas, processions, Bela Pana
Date
1st Baisakha of Odia calendar
Related to
South and Southeast Asian solar New Year
Pana Sankranti, (Odia: ପଣା ସଙ୍କ୍ରାନ୍ତି), also known as Maha Bishuba Sankranti (Odia: ମହା ବିଷୁବ ସଙ୍କ୍ରାନ୍ତି),[1][2][3] is the traditional new year day festival of Odia people in Odisha, India.[4][5][6] The festival occurs in the solar Odia calendar (the lunisolar Hindu calendar followed in Odisha) on the first day of the traditional solar month of Meṣa, hence equivalent lunar month Baisakha. This falls on the Purnimanta system of the Indian Hindu calendar.[3] It therefore falls on 13/14 April every year on the Gregorian calendar.[7]
The festival is celebrated with visits to Shiva, Shakti or Hanuman temples.[8] People take baths in rivers or major pilgrimage centers. Communities participate in mela (fairs), participate in traditional dance or acrobatic performances. Feasts and special drinks such as a chilled wood apple-milk-yoghurt-coconut drink called pana is shared, a tradition that partly is the source of this festival's name.[8][3]
Pana Sankranti is related to new year festivals in South and Southeast Asian solar New Year as observed by Hindus and Buddhists elsewhere such as Vaisakhi (north and central India, Nepal), Bohag Bihu (Assam), Pohela Boishakh (Bengal), Puthandu (Tamil Nadu) etc.[7][9]
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^Orissa (India) (1966). Orissa District Gazetteers: Ganjam. Superintendent, Orissa Government Press.
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^Maha Vishuba Sankranti Odisha celebrates Maha Vishuba Sankranti with Fervor
^Classic Cooking of Orissa. Danda Nata. Allied Publishers. 2010. pp. 26–. ISBN 978-81-8424-584-4. Retrieved 13 April 2012.
^Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts (1995). Prakr̥ti: Primal elements, the oral tradition. Meru Day, Meru Sankranti. Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts. p. 172. ISBN 978-81-246-0037-5. Retrieved 13 April 2012.
^ abJ. Gordon Melton (2011). Religious Celebrations: An Encyclopedia of Holidays, Festivals, Solemn Observances, and Spiritual Commemorations. ABC-CLIO. p. 633. ISBN 978-1-59884-206-7.
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^Kalyan Kumar Dasgupta; P. K. Mishra (1996). Aspects of Indian history and historiography: Professor Kalyan Kumar Dasgupta felicitation volume. World wise "vishuba sankranti". Kaveri Books. p. 111. ISBN 978-81-7479-009-5. Retrieved 13 April 2012.
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