HOLI AND KAMANDI
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As both these events, the death of Holika and the death of Cupid, occurred on the same day, this feast is called the Holt feast by some and as Kaman-pandikai by others, the first five days’ feast before the full-moon being called the Holi-pandikai and the next three days as the Kaman-pandikai. As the Holi feast is celebrated to remove the evils of youngsters and children, Kaman-pandikai is supposed to be observed to remove the evils that may accrue to adults and grown-up men by the setting-in of the Spring. If they go wrong their body will be reduced to ash as was Cupid’s is the moral.
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