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Spiritual · Karnataka · October–May

Bhoota Aradhane

Coastal Karnataka's ancestral spirit-worship ritual, where a costumed performer becomes the vessel for a bhoota, a guardian spirit, to bless and counsel the village.

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Bhoota Aradhane sits inside Karnataka's wider living culture — one date on a calendar that also holds these traditions.

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Karnataka · September/October

Dasara

Karnataka's ten-day state festival built around the Mysuru Palace, culminating in a torch-lit procession where a bejewelled elephant carries the Chamundeshwari idol through the old city.

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Karnataka · February/March

Mahashivaratri

A night of fasting and temple vigil devoted to Shiva, observed with lingam abhisheka and all-night bhajans at temples across the state.

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Karnataka · March/April

Bengaluru Karaga

One of Bengaluru's oldest living festivals, where a priest of the Thigala community carries a towering flower pyramid on his head through the old city streets before dawn.

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