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- Year: 802 : 127  or Songkran: 802  (Thai: เทศกาลสงกรานต์, pronounced [tʰêːt.sā.kāːn sǒŋ.krāːn]), also known as Songkran Festival, Songkran Splendours,: 127 ...
- Songkran is the water-splashing festival celebration of Tai peoples in traditional new year for Buddhist calendar widely celebrated across South and Southeast...
- pouring water at one another as part of the cleansing ritual to welcome the Songkran New Year. Traditionally, people gently sprinkled water on one another as...
- as meṣa saṅkrānti in Sanskrit, and is observed as Mesha Sankranti and Songkran in South and South-east Asian cultures. The specific New Year observances...
- in Thailand as "Bloody Songkran" (Thai: สงกรานต์เลือด, romanized: Songkran lueat), referring to the Thai holiday of Songkran, which takes place on 13–15...
- is comparable to other festivities in the region such as the Songkran in Laos, the Songkran in Thailand, the Cambodian New Year, the Sinhalese New Year...
- traditions of South and Southeast Asian solar New Year (Mesha Sankranti and Songkran). It is known Vaisakhi across North India and Nepal and marks the beginning...
- Lao New Year, called Pi Mai (Lao: ປີໃໝ່, [pìːmāi]) or less commonly Songkan (Lao: ສົງການ, [sǒŋkàːn]), is celebrated every year from 13 or 14 April to 15...
- celebrated with enthusiasm. Sangken is celebrated as Songkran in other South East Asian countries. Songkran is a new year in the countries like Thailand, Laos...
- Songkran Festival, Chiang Mai's ancient city wall...