Diwali Season

The festival of lights and the 5-day celebration from Dhanteras to Bhai Dooj

About Diwali Season — Traditions & Observance

The Diwali season is a five-day arc of festivals: Dhanteras (invoking prosperity, buying metal), Naraka Chaturdashi or Choti Diwali (early-morning oil bath, lamps), Diwali itself — Lakshmi Puja at dusk with rows of diyas — then Govardhan Puja (honouring Krishna’s lifting of the hill) and Bhai Dooj (the bond of brother and sister). Homes are cleaned and decorated, rangolis drawn, sweets exchanged, and accounts books worshipped for the new financial year.

Dhanteras

📅 Kartika Krishna Trayodashi

lunar

Worship of Dhanvantari and Lakshmi; buying gold/silver

முக்கியத்துவம்: Prosperity and health

🙏 Lakshmi 🙏 Dhanvantari

Diwali

📅 Kartika Amavasya

lunar

Festival of lights celebrating Ram's return to Ayodhya

முக்கியத்துவம்: Victory of light over darkness

🙏 Lakshmi 🙏 Rama 🙏 Ganesha