Happy Tamil New Year (Puthandu) 2023 Wishes Images, Quotes, Messages, Status: On this day, people clean and decorate their homes, wear new clothes, and prepare trays of fruits and flowers along with auspicious items.
Happy Tamil New Year (Puthandu) 2023 Wishes Images, Status, Quotes, Messages, GIF Pics: It falls on the first day of Chithirai in the Tamil calendar, which corresponds to April 14, as per the Gregorian calendar.
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Puthandu or Puthuvarudam, is celebrated as Tamil New Year by Tamil Hindus in and outside Tamil Nadu and Puducherry, such as in Sri Lanka, Malaysia, Singapore, Reunion, Mauritius and other countries with Tamil diaspora. The festival date is set with the solar cycle of the lunisolar Hindu calendar, as the first day of the Tamil month Chithirai. People clean and decorate their homes and prepare a tray with fruits, flowers and auspicious items. They wear new clothes and children seeks blessings from elders. There are several references in early Tamil literature to the April new year. Nakkirar, Sangam period author of the Neṭunalvāṭai, wrote that the sun travels from Mesha/Chitterai through 11 successive signs of the zodiac.] The Silappadikaaram mentions the 12 Raasis or zodiac signs starting with Mesha/Chitterai. The Manimekalai alludes to the Hindu solar calendar as we know it today. Adiyarkunalaar, an early medieval commentator or Urai-asiriyar mentions the twe