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About Pitru Paksh Mahalaya Amavasya
This festival is celebrated right before the beginning of the popular festival of Dusshera in the country. Mahalaya is mainly the special event of honoring and showing gratitude to your previous generations who have passed away in order to acknowledge their contributions to our lives as well the society.
The festival mainly takes place in the month of September and is celebrated in different ways in different parts of the country. The languages we speak, the ways we are moulded, the wealth and knowledge we have inherited—are all gifts and tokens from the previous generations who have existed before us and hence, this festival is wholeheartedly dedicated to our ancestors.
While some people go to the river ghats, letting priests perform rituals for the peace of the spirits of their ancestors, some people choose to offer the first production of crops that are newly yielded this time as a mark of respect to pay tribute to their prior generations.