Hola Mohalla Images For Students

Hola Mohalla Images: Hola Mohalla is celebrated by Sikh community, a day after Holi, generally in the month of March. This festival was pioneered by the tenth Sikh Guru, Guru Gobind Singh Ji in Anandpur Sahib to strengthen the Sikh community by training them in the art of warfare. So on this occasion thousands of people flock to Anandpur Sahib, Punjab in India to celebrate this festival. The three day events include spectacular horse riding, daring sword fighting, mock battles or Gatka and archery by the Nihang Sikhs who are considered as the beloved army of Guru Ji. In spite of that, there are community meals or langars, processions and hymns in praise of God. People visit Gurdwara on this day. Hola Mohalla Images For Students and Children Hola Mohalla Images For Students and Children Hola Mohalla, also called Hola, is a one-day Sikh festival which most often falls in March and takes place on the second day of the lunar month of Chett, a day after the Hindu spring festival Holi but sometimes coincides with Holi. Hola Mohalla is a big festive event for Sikhs around the world. The fair held during Holi and Hola at Anandpur Sahib is traditionally a three-day event but participants attend Anandpur Sahib for a week, camping out and enjoying various displays of fighting prowess and bravery, and listening to kirtan, music, and poetry. For meals, which is an integral part of the Sikh institution (Gurdwara), visitors sit together in Pangats (Queues) and eat vegetarian food of the Langars. The event concludes on the day of Hola Mohalla with a long, military-style procession near Takht Sri Keshgarh Sahib, one of the five seats of temporal authority of the Sikhs. Hola Mohalla Images For Students and Children The festival was founded by Guru Gobind Singh, the tenth Sikh Guru. The Guru was in the midst of fighting both Aurangzeb of the Mughal Empire and the Hill Rajputs, and had recently established the Khalsa Panth. On 7 March 1701, Guru Gobind Singh started a new tradition by overseeing a day of mock battles and poetry contests at Lohgarh Fort. The tradition has since spread from the town of Anandpur Sahib to nearby Kiratpur Sahib and the foothills of the Shivaliks, and to other Gurdwaras around the world. According to Guru Gobind Singh's court poet Bhai Nand Lal, colors were thrown by the participants after completion of the mock battles. Sikh tradition holds that Guru Gobind Singh also participated in the colorful festival with the use of gulal which has survived into modern times with Nihangs "splashing gulal (red farinaceous powder) on each other and the audience". The alternative view is that the practice of throwing colors was not observed by Guru Gobind Singh. Hola Mohalla builds upon the festival of Holi. The Sri Guru Granth Sahib prescribes celebrating Holi by serving God. The colours of Holi manifest in the Lord's love. As Holi starts with Holika Dahan on the full moon night of Phagan or Phalgan, the festival of Holi is referred to as the festival of Phalgun even though the actual day of Holi falls on the first day of the lunar month of Chett. Sri Guru Gobind Singh Ji built upon this method of celebrating Holi by adding a martial element and creating Hola Mohalla to be celebrated a day after Holi. Hola Mohalla Images For Students and Children

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