Divali Night
The surge of 8593 cases in the capital is the highest for any major indian city and comes as people crowd shopping areas ahead of diwali the hindu festival of lights on saturday.
Divali night. The corresponding dates in the gregorian calendar usually fall in late october and november. During the festival hindus jains and sikhs illuminate their homes temples and work spaces with diyas candles and lanterns 13 hindus in particular have a ritual oil bath at dawn on each day of the. Diwali is a five day festival the height of which is celebrated on the third day coinciding with the darkest night of the lunar month.
On the night of diwali celebrants light dozens of candles and clay lamps called diyas placing them throughout their homes and in the streets to light up the dark night. Its observed on the 15th day of kartik the holiest month in the hindu lunar calendar. Dipavali divali diwali also spelled divali one of the major religious festivals in hinduism lasting for five days from the 13th day of the dark half of the lunar month ashvina to the second day of the light half of karttika.
Hence it is celebrated as the occasion where ignorance is over come by the light of knowledge and wisdom. One of the most significant connotation of diwali is it being symbolic of knowledge or light illuminating the darkness of the night.