An Entity of Type: person, from Named Graph: http://dbpedia.org, within Data Space: dbpedia.org

Gajan or Shivagajan is a Hindu festival celebrated mostly in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is associated with such deities as Shiva, Neel and Dharmaraj. Gajan spans around a week, starting at the last week of Choitro continuing till the end of the Bengali year. It ends with Charak Puja. Participants of this festival is known as sannyasi or . Persons of any gender can be a participant. The complete history of the festival is not known. The central theme of this festival is deriving satisfaction through non-sexual pain, devotion and sacrifice.

Property Value
dbo:abstract
  • Gajan or Shivagajan is a Hindu festival celebrated mostly in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is associated with such deities as Shiva, Neel and Dharmaraj. Gajan spans around a week, starting at the last week of Choitro continuing till the end of the Bengali year. It ends with Charak Puja. Participants of this festival is known as sannyasi or . Persons of any gender can be a participant. The complete history of the festival is not known. The central theme of this festival is deriving satisfaction through non-sexual pain, devotion and sacrifice. (en)
dbo:country
dbo:meaning
  • marriage ceremony of Lord Shiva and Harakali
dbo:similar
dbo:thumbnail
dbo:wikiPageExternalLink
dbo:wikiPageID
  • 24281773 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageLength
  • 4456 (xsd:nonNegativeInteger)
dbo:wikiPageRevisionID
  • 1082185850 (xsd:integer)
dbo:wikiPageWikiLink
dbp:begins
  • laat week of Choitro (en)
dbp:caption
  • A devotee of Gajan festival at Howrah (en)
dbp:celebrations
  • open air drama (en)
dbp:duration
  • 1 (xsd:integer)
dbp:frequency
  • Annually (en)
dbp:holidayName
  • Gajan (en)
dbp:nickname
  • Shivagajan (en)
dbp:observedby
  • Hindus and Tribal people of East India (en)
dbp:relatedto
dbp:significance
  • marriage ceremony of Lord Shiva and Harakali (en)
dbp:type
  • Cultural (en)
dbp:wikiPageUsesTemplate
dcterms:subject
gold:hypernym
rdf:type
rdfs:comment
  • Gajan or Shivagajan is a Hindu festival celebrated mostly in the Indian state of West Bengal. It is associated with such deities as Shiva, Neel and Dharmaraj. Gajan spans around a week, starting at the last week of Choitro continuing till the end of the Bengali year. It ends with Charak Puja. Participants of this festival is known as sannyasi or . Persons of any gender can be a participant. The complete history of the festival is not known. The central theme of this festival is deriving satisfaction through non-sexual pain, devotion and sacrifice. (en)
rdfs:label
  • Gajan (festival) (en)
owl:sameAs
prov:wasDerivedFrom
foaf:depiction
foaf:isPrimaryTopicOf
foaf:name
  • Gajan (en)
foaf:nick
  • Shivagajan (en)
is dbo:wikiPageDisambiguates of
is dbo:wikiPageWikiLink of
is foaf:primaryTopic of
Powered by OpenLink Virtuoso    This material is Open Knowledge     W3C Semantic Web Technology     This material is Open Knowledge    Valid XHTML + RDFa
This content was extracted from Wikipedia and is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported License