Question

Basant Panchami of short paragraph

Answer 1

Vasant Panchami herald the advent of Spring. In the North, Basant Panchami is a spring festival when people wear yellow garments and fly kites.
This is a Hindu festival that is celebrated in honour of Saraswati. The celebration is more extensive in Bengal and Bihar where images are taken in musical processions after the Puja is over and immersed in the rivers.

On Basant Panchami, as stated yellow is particu­larly worn as a symbolic sign of veneration to Saraswati, Goddess of Learning, Wisdom and Fine Arts. Saraswati is reputed to have invented the musical instru­ment, Veena.

Basant Panchami is very popular in Bengal. On this day, as said before. Goddess Saraswati is worshipped. The day is observed as holiday in the state and all public offices remain closed. No reading and writing is permissible. Both sexes usually wear basanti or yellow cloth and celebrate the festival with music, recita­tions and rejoicing. The prayer is held in every localities, in temples, schools, colleges and universities. The clay figures of the deity are made.

Goddess of learning Devi Saraswati is worshipped on the fifth day of Magh (January-February) by scribes, scholars and students. Strangely one school holds the opinion that it is auspicious to write important documents on this sacred day. While another school holds the view that on this day, no writings should be done and all books, pens, pencils, ink-stands and other writings materials should be locked up before an image of Saraswati.

Answer 2

Vasant Panchami, also spelled Basant Panchami, is a Hindu spring festival.[1] It is observed on the fifth day of the Indian traditional calendar month of Magha, which typically falls in the Gregorian months of January or February.
The festival is celebrated in various ways depending on the region. Many revere goddess Saraswati, the Hindu deity of learning, arts and music.[1] She is celebrated with visits to her temples, by playing music, as well as the day when parents sit down with their children, initiate them into writing letters of alphabet or study together.[4]

Others mark it as the festival of god Kama, the Hindu deity of love,[1] by remembering the loved one particularly one's spouse or special friend, celebrating it with spring flowers. Its link with the god of love and its traditions have led some scholars to call it "a Hindu form of Valentine's Day".[5] Others wear yellow clothes and eat yellow rice to emulate the yellow mustard (sarson) flower fields, or play by flying kites.

The Vasant Panchami also marks the start of preparation for Holika bonfire and Holi, which occurs forty days later.