Basant Panchami 2022 All You Need to Know About Why do We Celebrate Basant Panchami
                     
MEANING OF BASANT PANCHAMI
The word ‘Basant or Vasant’ means ‘spring’ and ‘Panchami’ means the 
‘fifth day’, in the Hindi language.
SIGNIFICANCE OF THIS BASANT 
PANCHAMI 2022
Basant Panchami, also known as Saraswati Puja, Sri Panchami or Basant 
Kite Festival, is a Sikh and Hindu festival held on the fifth day of the 
traditional Hindu calendar month (usually early February)
It is a seasonal spring festival that is observed in many regions of the 
country. It is also the time when spring begins in India and mustard 
flowers bloom
WHEN IS BASANT 
PANCHAMI 
CELEBRATED?
Basant Panchami 2022 in India is an 
important Indian holiday celebrated 
every year in the month of Magha in 
the Hindu calendar i.e. on the fifth 
day of the bright fortnight of the 
Hindu lunisolar month of Magha.
SIGNIFICANCE OF 
YELLOW COLOUR
Yellow is very important to Basant 
Panchami because on this day people 
wear yellow clothes, worship 
goddesses with yellow flowers and 
decorate houses with yellow. 
The colour Yellow is considered a good 
sign and is greatly valued on this day. 
Many people honour Goddess 
Saraswati by getting up early and 
wearing yellow (which is considered to 
be her favourite colour), eating and 
sharing yellow sweets and snacks, and 
performing pujas on her deities. 
The season and festival also mark the 
ripening of agricultural fields with 
mustard yellow flowers, which Hindus 
associate with Saraswati's favourite 
colour and the arrival of spring. 
HOW BASANT PANCHAMI IS 
CELEBRATED?
Celebrating the preparation for the coming of spring, Basant Panchami 
2022 or Vasant Panchami is an auspicious Hindu festival celebrated with 
great pomp and spectacle across India on the fifth day (that is called 
Panchami Tithi) of the Hindus Magha month in Shukla Paksha.  
• On the occasion of Basant Panchami 
in Punjab, the Sikhs and Hindus wear 
yellow turbans on headdresses.
• In addition to Saraswati Puja, the 
people in Uttarakhand worship Shiva, 
Parvati-the mother earth and the 
crops or agriculture. 
• Along with worshipping the Goddess, 
people also fly kites and enjoy the 
festivity.
MAILING ADDRESS
j apmeetho l idays@gmai l .
com
WEBSITE
www.s ikhtours . in
PHONE NUMBER
+91-99100  07940
CONTACT US