InFacts about India-18 February 2022

🇮🇳 FACTS ABOUT INDIA🇮🇳
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Medaram Jatara in TELANGANA: it is the second-largest fair in India, after the Kumbh Mela.

It is the state festival of Telangana. It is held for four days. The festival is organised by Telangana’s second-largest tribal community called the Koya tribe. is celebrated once in two years in February or Magha month, on the full moon day. Currently, it is celebrated biennially celebrated.

Medaram Jathara festival is conducted in honour of Goddesses Sammakka and Saralamma.

Festival will be held from February 16, 2022 to February 19, 2022.
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On 18 February every year Taj Mahotsav or Taj Festival is celebrated at Agra reveals the rich cultural heritage of our country. This festival in 2022 will begin on 18 February and last till 27 February 2021.

VEDIK GYAN:

Badrinath , an ancient temple dedicated to Lord Vishnu is one of the four pilgrim centres in the Himalayas that every Hindu yearns to visit at least once in his lifetime.
The Skanda Purana extols the holy town of Badrinath as being holier than all other shrines that exist in heaven and hell.

Badrinath temple is part of both Char Dham and Chota Char Dham (Badrinath, Kedarnath, Gangotri and Yamunotri). Adi Shankaracharya found the idol of Lord Badri in Alaknanda River and put it up in a cave near the Tapt Kund.

LEARN Sanskrit

*अन्तो नास्ति पिपासायाः सन्तोषः परमं सुखम् ।*
*तस्मात्सन्तोषमेवेह परं पश्यन्ति पण्डिताः ॥* – Mahabharata. Vanaparva

antō nāsti pipāsāyāḥ santōṣaḥ paramaṃ sukham ।
tasmātsantōṣamēvēha paraṃ paśyanti paṇḍitāḥ ॥
*भावार्थ* : तृष्णा अनंत है, और संतोष परम् सुख है । इस लिए विद्वज्जन संतोष को ही इस संसार में श्रेष्ठ समझते हैं ।

Meaning : There is no limit for greed, and contentment is the ultimate happiness, so a wise man is always happy with what he has.