Celebrated in: Western Odisha and adjoining areas of Simdega in Jharkhand.
It is an agricultural festival, observed to welcome the new rice of the season.
It is observed on the fifth day of the lunar fortnight of the month of Bhadrapada or Bhaadra (August–September), the day after the Ganesh Chaturthi festival.
People offer the newly harvested crop called Nabanha to their respective presiding deities, as a part of the rituals
