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Dewalee, Dewali|diːˈwɑːliː|
Also 7 Dually, 9 Divali, Diwali, Dewallee.
[Hind. dīwālī, ad. Skr. dīpāvalī (dīpālī) row of lights, f. dīpa light, lamp.]
A Hindu festival with illuminations held on the day of the new moon in the month Asvina or Kārttika.
1698Fryer Acc. E. India & P. 110 The first New Moon in October, is the Banyans Dually. 1820T. Coats in Trans. Lit. Soc. Bombay (1823) III. 211 The Dewallee, Deepaullee, or Time of Lights, takes place twenty days after the Dussera, and lasts three days. 1849E. B. Eastwick Dry Leaves 84 The Díwálí happening to fall on this day, the whole river was bright with lamps. 1883Monier-Williams Religious Thought & Life in India 432 The Dīvālī is celebrated with splendid effect at Benares. 1952J. Masters Deceivers xiv. 142 It was the Dewali, the festival dedicated to lights and gambling, which fell always on the twentieth day after Dussehra. 1969Eve's Weekly (Bombay) 20 Dec. 33/1 It is not Divali, but Christmas. |