Although there is no Songkran Festival in India, there is a Songkran Festival. In a village in the southern Indian state of Andhra Pradesh, the Fecal Throwing Festival is an annual traditional festival for local villagers.
This festival commemorates the "Pitakala War" in Indian mythology, which was triggered by the marriage dispute between Lord Veerabhadraswamy, the incarnation of Indian Shiva, and Bhadrakali.
This custom has a history of hundreds of years. According to legend, the weapon chosen by Badala goddess Carly is cow dung. According to tradition, about 34,000 Indian villagers throw cow dung at each other every year to celebrate this festival. These cow dung are dried cow dung. According to the two castes of Golan and Kamara, the fighting is divided into two aspects, representing Velab Hadwawaye and Badala Cali respectively.
The festival of throwing excrement is usually held the day after the Hindu Spring Festival. In order to celebrate this festival, people will collect a lot of cow dung during the Spring Festival, and make it into dung blocks after a series of processing such as dilution, stirring, kneading and drying. On the festival day, people throw dung at each other in the street, and parents will throw their children into the dung heap.
Indians believe that cows are sacred and noble, and cow dung has a cleaning function. Throwing dung blocks and rolling dung piles can bring good luck and drive away diseases in the new year. The more cow dung a person throws, the more blessings he gets.