** Oriya New Year, or Maha Visuba Sankranthi ( India's Orissa state )

* Oriya New Year

* Maha Vishuva Sankranti: ( Oriya: ମହ ା ବ ି ଷ ୁ ବ ସଙ ୍ କ ୍ ରମଣ, Sanskrit: मह ा व ि ष ु व स ं क ् रमण, Bengali: মহ া ব ি ষ ু ব স ং ক ্ র া ন ্ ত ি), also known as Mesha Sankranti and Pana Sankranti, is celebrated as the Oriya New Year and is marked as the end of a Bengali year.

Das was born in New Delhi to noted Indian painter, Jatin Das, an Oriya Hindu Kayastha ( Karanam or " Karan "), and a Gujarati Jain mother named Varsha who is a writer.

It is written from left to right, does not have distinct letter cases, and is recognizable ( along with most other North Indic scripts, with few exceptions like Gujarati and Oriya ) by a horizontal line that runs along the top of full letters.

Turmeric is commonly called ' Halodhi ' in Assamese, Pasupu in Telugu, Kaha ( කහ ) in Sinhala, Manjal ( மஞ ் சள ் ) in Tamil literally meaning yellow color, Arisina ( ಅರ ಿ ಸ ಿ ಣ ) in Kannada, Haridra ( हर ि द ् र ) in Sanskrit, Haldi ( حلدی ) in Urdu and Haldar or Haldi ( हल ् द ी) in Hindi, Haladi ( ହଳଦ ୀ) in Oriya, ' Halud ( হল ু দ )' in Bengali Besar ( ब ॆ स ा र ) in Nepalese.

Vajrayana ( Devanagari: वज ् रय ा न ; Oriya: ବଜ ୍ ରଯ ା ନ, Tibetan: ར ྡོ་ ར ྗེ་ ཐ ེ ག ་ པ ་, rdo rje theg pa ; Mongolian: Очирт хөлгөн, Ochirt Hölgön, Chinese: 密宗, mì zōng ) is also known as Tantric Buddhism, Tantrayāna, Mantrayāna, Secret Mantra, Esoteric Buddhism and the Diamond Vehicle.

The official language of the Union of India is Hindi, with 21 other regional languages holding co-official status, including: Assamese, Bengali, Bodo, Dogri, Gujarati, Kannada, Kashmiri, Konkani, Maithili, Malayalam, Manipuri, Marathi, Nepali, Oriya, Punjabi, Sanskrit, Santali, Sindhi, Tamil, Telugu and Urdu.

* Sree Mandira ( Oriya: ଶ ୍ ର ୀ ମନ ୍ ଦ ି ର ) is a famous Hindu temple dedicated to Jagannath ( Krishna ) and located in the coastal town of Puri in the state of Orissa, India.

Due to Sanskrit's major influence on the vocabulary of most languages in India and Asia, the term ' maharaja ' is common to many modern Indian languages, such as Hindi, Telugu, Oriya, Punjabi, Bengali, Gujarati, etc.

Along with other Eastern Indo-Aryan languages, Assamese evolved circa 1000 – 1200 AD from the Magadhi Prakrit, which developed from a dialect or group of dialects that were close to, but different from, Vedic and Classical Sanskrit. Its sister languages include Bengali, Chittagonian, Sylheti ( Cilôţi ), Oriya, the Bihari languages. It is written with the Assamese script.

In Oriya, it is called tentuli, in Hindi it is called imli ( इमल ी); in Rajasthani, it is known as aamli ( आम ् ल ी); in Gujarati the amli, and Marathi and Konkani the chinch ; in Kannada it is called hunase ( ಹ ು ಣಸ ೆ), Telugu chintachettu ( tree ) and chintapandu ( fruit extract.

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Oriya ( ), officially spelled Odia, is an Indian language, belonging to the Indo-Aryan branch of the Indo-European language family.

Oriya is one of the many official languages in India ; it is the official language of Orissa and the second official language of Jharkhand.

Oriya is the predominant language of Orissa, where Oriya speakers comprise around 83. 33 % of the population according to census surveys.

In India, the language is spoken by over 31 million people, and globally over 45 million speak Oriya.

Mughalbandi Oriya is considered as proper or Standard Oriya due to literary traditions.

Oriya is an Eastern Indo-Aryan language belonging to the Indo-Aryan language family.

The history of the Oriya language is divided into:

Sachi Kanta Rauta Ray is the great introducer of the ultra-modern style in modern Oriya poetry.

Vijayadashami ( Bengali: ব ি জয ়া দশম ী, Kannada: ವ ಿ ಜಯದಶಮ ಿ, Malayalam: വ ി ജയദശമ ി, Marathi: व ि जय ा दशम ी, Nepali: व ि जय ा दशम ी, Oriya: ବ ି ଜୟ ା ଦଶମ ୀ, Tamil: வ ி ஜயதசம ி, Telugu: వ ి జయదశమ ి) also known as Dasara, is one of the most important festivals celebrated in various forms, across India, Nepal and Bangladesh.

Festive fairs and festivals such as the Loku of the Nocte, Oriya or Ojiyele of the Wancho and the Pongtu festival of the Tutsa are celebrated in full flair.

In Orissa, the Hanuman Jayanti is celebrated on the first day of Baisakha month as per Oriya calendar ( normally comes on April 14 or 15 ).

Abhinaya can be performed on verses in Sanskrit or Oriya language.

Most common are Abhinayas on Oriya songs or Sanskrit Ashthapadis or Sanskrit stutis like Dasavatar Stotram ( depicting the ten incarnations of Lord Vishnu ) or Ardhanari Stotram.

There are noticeable similarities between Oriya and Thai scripts, which provides clues about the Sadhavas, earlier Kalinga traders who traveled to south Asian countries and ruled there, leaving evidence of the Oriya script on the Thai script, along with a cultural impact.

The curved appearance of the Oriya script is a result of the practice of writing on palm leaves, which has a tendency to tear the leaves when many straight lines are written.

Previously, Santali had been written with the Bengali alphabet, Oriya alphabet, or Latin alphabet, on the rare occasions it was written at all.

The legend has such a powerful impact on the Oriya culture that the simple mention of white horse-black horse brings the imagery of Kanchi conquest of the Lord.

In the modern Oriya literature, Jagannath has been a common reference point, both on historical as well as mythical paradigms.

The most acknowledged literary pieces on Jagannath are Nila Shaila and Niladri Vijaya by renowned Oriya writer Late Surendra Mohanty with the author receiving the Kendra Sahitya Academy award in 1969 for the novel </ ref >

Although it is not clear how these medieval Oriya hymns found their way to the Sikh religion, there are records narrating how Jayadeva's work had a profound influence on Guru Nanak during his visit to Puri.

Sri B. P. Rath has written a number of novels in Oriya, like LUHORO MOSAL KEBE LIVENA, MONISO TOLE KANONO GOLE and in each and every novel he has emphasized on removal of social disparity.

Most states are based on ethnicity including Tamilnadu ( Tamil ), Andrapradesh ( Telegu ), Odissa ( Oriya ), West Bengal ( Bengali ), Maharastra ( Marathi ), Panjab ( Punjabi ), Bihar ( Bihari ) etc.

In fact, there is a famous Oriya song which says that on this occasion, the chariot, the wheels, the grand avenue all become one with Lord Jagannatha himself.

Only three special patta chitras, traditional Oriya paintings of natural colours on cloth stiffened with starch, known as Anasara Pattis, are strung on a bamboo screen hiding the deities from public view, can be seen by the public.

Bhajan, Janan, Oriya songs based on ragas, Rangila Chaupadi etc.

A facsimile of an inscription in Oriya script on a copper plate recording a land grant made by Rāja Purushottam Deb, king of Orissa, in the fifth year of his reign ( 1483 ).

Sada Shiv Rathsharma's book titled Sun Temple of Konark, which initiated further research works on the Konark Temple thereby fetching him the Padmashree award and perhaps the first for an Oriya.

He went on to compose for over 75 Hindi films, over 40 Bengali films, around 26 Malayalam films, and several Marathi, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Gujarati, Oriya and Assamese films.