![]() During the British colonial rule era, major annual fairs ( melas) used to be held in Uderolal and Zindapir (near Hyderabad, Pakistan). The tradition likely started with Daryapanthis. ![]() ![]() The Hindu Sindhi, according to this legend, celebrate the new year as Uderolal's birthday. Among his Sufi Muslim followers, Jhulelal is known as "Khwaja Khizir" or "Zindapir". He, as Jhulelal, became the champion of the people in Sindh, from both religions. Varun Dev morphed into a warrior and old man who preached and reprimanded Mirkhshah that Muslims and Hindus deserve the same religious freedoms. The festival marks the arrival of spring and harvest, but in the Sindhi community, it also marks the birth of Uderolal in 1007, after they prayed to the Hindu god Varun Dev on the banks of River Indus to save them from the persecution by the tyrannical Muslim ruler Mirkhshah. It typically falls in late March or early April in the Gregorian calendar on or about the same day as Gudi Padwa in Maharashtra and Ugadi in other parts of the Deccan region of India. ![]() The date of the festival is based on the lunar cycle of the lunisolar Hindu calendar, falling on the first day of the year, in the Sindhi month of Chet ( Chaitra). Chetri Chandra (Moon of Chaitra) is a festival that marks the beginning of the Lunar Hindu New Year for Sindhi Hindus. ![]()
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