![]() ![]() In the northern states, Janmashtami is celebrated with the Raslila tradition, which literally means 'play (lila) of delight, essence (rasa)'. The festival typically falls as the monsoons in north India have begun retreating, fields laden with crops and rural communities have time to play. Krishna temples are decorated and lighted up, they attract numerous visitors on the day, while Krishna devotees hold events and keep night vigil. Vaishnava communities in these cities in, as well as others in the state, as well locations in Rajasthan, Delhi, Haryana, Uttarakhand and Himalayan north celebrate Janmashtami. ISKCON temple in Delhi at Janamashtami Janmashtami is the largest festival in the Braj region of north India, in cities such as where Hindu tradition states Krishna was born, and in where he grew up. Krishna Janmashtami is followed by the festival, which celebrates the occasion when distributed gifts to the community in honour of the birth. It is celebrated particularly in and, along with major Vaishnava and non-sectarian communities found in Manipur, Assam, West Bengal, Odisha, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Gujarat, Maharashtra, Karnataka, Kerala, Tamil Nadu, Andhra Pradesh and other regions. Dance-drama enactments of the life of Krishna according to the (such as or Krishna Lila), devotional singing through the midnight when Krishna is believed to have been born, fasting ( upavasa), a night vigil ( jagarana), and a festival (mahotsava) on the following day are a part of the Janmashtami celebrations. It is an important festival particularly to the tradition of Hinduism. It is observed according to, on the eighth day of the (dark fortnight) in the month of of the lunar and in the month of of the lunisolar, which overlaps with August and September of the. Krishna Janmashtami ( कृष्ण जन्माष्टमी,: Kṛṣṇa Janmāṣṭamī), also known simply as Janmashtami or Gokulashtami, is an annual festival that celebrates the birth of, the eighth of. ![]()
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