Fourth
From Sanskrit 'chatur' (four): the fourth lunar day of a fortnight.
The fourth lunar day of either fortnight, sacred to Ganesha. Ganesh Chaturthi is the bright Chaturthi of Bhadrapada.
What a chalisa is, the verse forms it uses, and twelve chalisas arranged by the deity each one praises, with every hymn linked where the story names it.
Ganesh Chaturthi keeps the bright fourth of Bhadrapada with a clay image and immersion. This article sets out the days and what the texts and later practice say.
The holiest Jain festival of the year — eight to ten days of fasting, scriptural study, and self-reflection, culminating in Samvatsari and the universal plea for forgiveness, Micchami Dukkadam.
How Parvati created Ganesha, and how he came to have the head of an elephant.
Karva Chauth is a fast kept by married Hindu women for their husbands' health and longevity, including its rituals, timing, and classic story.
The story of Parvati’s twelve-year penance in the Himalayas to win Lord Shiva as her husband, and why married women keep the rigorous waterless Hartalika Teej fast on Bhadrapada Shukla Tritiya.