Hierarchy classification:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Activities Facet
3. Events (hierarchy name)
4. events (activities)
5. cultural events
6. holidays
7. religious holidays
8. Jain holidays

Additional parents:

1. top of the aat hierarchies
2. Activities Facet
3. Events
4. events
5. cultural events
6. holidays
7. national holidays
8. New Year's Day

Anotations

Scope note:

Refers to an important Jain festival that ends the ritual year. The lights of the Hindu festival of the same name are reinterpreted as a commemoration of the passing into nirvana of Mahavira, the most recent of the Jain Tirthankaras, or saints. The lighting of the lamps is seen as a material substitute for the light of holy knowledge that was extinguished with Mhavira's death. The festival occurs on the full-moon day of the month of Karttika (October-November).