Vasant Panchami is a celebration that commemorates the start of the spring season’s preparations. Vasant Panchami is a Hindu festival devoted to Goddess Saraswati, the Hindu goddess of wisdom, language, music, and the arts. She represents all forms of creative energy and force, including longing and love.
Basant Panchami also marks the start of spring in India, with the blooming of mustard flowers. The celebration is associated with the colour yellow, and when in full bloom, large fields of mustard flowers resemble beds of yellow flowers. People wear yellow-colored clothing and consume yellow-colored foods (like khichdi).
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People commemorate it in a variety of ways, depending on the location.Vasant Panchami also marks the beginning of the forty-day countdown to Holika and Holi.
Vasant Panchami is a Hindu festival devoted to Goddess Saraswati, the Hindu goddess of wisdom, language, music, and the arts.