# From Makar Sankranti starts the ‘ day ’ of devatas ( Gods ), while dakshinayana ( southward movement of the sun ) is said to be the ‘ night ’ of devatas, so most of the auspicious things are done during this time.

Makar Sankranti is a Hindu festival dependent on the position of the sun and celebration of Sankranti who is considered a Deity for Hindus and is celebrated in many ways including worship for the departed ancestors and to worship Saraswati.

This is specially used during Makar Sankranti for making a dessert called tilgul.

Makar Sankranti is one of the most auspicious days for the Hindus and is celebrated in almost all parts of India in myriad cultural forms, with great devotion.

Uttarayan, as Makar Sankranti is called in Gujarati, is a major festival in the state of Gujarat which lasts for two days.

* Jarrett's brother-in-law is Jimmy Makar who was his crew chief when he drove the 18 car for Joe Gibbs Racing, he is married to Dale's sister Patty.

In March 2012, Mykolaiv gained international notoriety for lawlessness and police corruption following the rape and murder of Oksana Makar.

In Nepal, two children who are also candidates for the rebirth are encountered, Raju ( Rajuh Lal ) and Gita ( Greishma Makar Singh ).

Patti is married to Jimmy Makar, who worked with Dale Jarrett for three years at Joe Gibbs Racing, and won the 2000 championship crew chief with Bobby Labonte.

Makar and Varvara exchange letters back and forth attesting to their terrible living conditions and the former frequently squanders his money on gifts for the latter.

She has Makar find linen for her and begins to talk about various luxuries, leaving him alone in the end despite the fact that he was coming on to better times.

In the western Indian state of Gujarat, an event of the Makar Sankranti festival is kozhi kettu, the rooster fight.

Lyndsay, the Makar, is not behind his fellow-poets in acknowledgment to Geoffrey Chaucer.

The Makar Wharf is a major port-of-call in international shipping, and one of the most important ports in Mindanao.

When Jupiter and the sun are in the zodiac sign Leo ( Simha Rashi ) it is held in Trimbakeshwar, Nashik ; when the sun is in Aries ( Mesha Rashi ) it is celebrated at Haridwar ; when Jupiter is in Taurus ( Vrishabha Rashi ) and the sun is in Capricorn ( Makar Rashi ) Kumbha Mela is celebrated at Prayag ; and Jupiter and the sun are in Scorpio ( Vrishchik Rashi ) the Mela is celebrated at Ujjain.

A thousand years ago, Makar Sankranti was on December 31 and is now on January 14.

Makar Sankranti is celebrated in the Hindu Calendar month of Magha.

Makar Sankranti is a major harvest festival celebrated in various parts of India.

The movement of the Sun from one zodiac sign into another is called Sankranti and as the Sun moves into the Capricorn zodiac known as Makar in Hindi, this occasion is named as Makar Sankranti in the Indian context.

Makar Sankranti, apart from a harvest festival is also regarded as the beginning of an auspicious phase in Indian culture.

All over the country, Makar Sankranti is observed with great fanfare.

# According to the Puranas, on this day Surya ( Sun ) visits the house of his son Shani ( Saturn ), who is the lord of the Makar rashi ( Zodiac Capricorn ).

Makar becomes offended when she sends him a copy of The Overcoat, because he finds the main character to be living the life he now lives.

The Edinburgh Makar was traditionally seen as the unpaid equivalent of a poet laureate, tasked with representing and promoting poetry in Scotland.

In the Kumaon region of Uttarakhand Makar Sankranti is celebrated with great gusto.

With the formulation of the Bikrami calendar, Lohri has been twinned with the Hindu winter solstice festival of Makar Sankranti which relates to the Sun's entry into the new sign, Makar.

Girgaon also celebrates other festivals with equal zest whether Diwali, Gokulashtami or Makar Sankranti.

Armenian Church music was traditionally monophonic, but Makar Yekmalian, Komitas, and several other musician / composers in the 19th and 20th centuries arranged polyphonic versions of the pre-existing melodies.

On 14 January, it is celebrated as Makar Sankranti or Sakraat or KHICHDI ( in local dialects ). As in other parts of country, people take bath in rivers and ponds and feast upon seasonal delicacies as a celebration of good harvest.

Three of the other players, Makar Honcharenko, Fedir Tyutchev and Mikhail Sviridovskiy, who were in a work squad in the city that day, were arrested a few days later or, according to other sources, escaped and hid in the city until it was liberated.

Makar and Varvara are second cousins twice-removed and live across from each other on the same street in terrible apartments.

Magog " land of Gog " ( sons were Elichanaf and Lubal )-also Gog, Gogh, Magug, Magogae, Mugogh, Mat Gugi, Gugu, Gyges, Bedwig, Moghef, Magogian, Massagetae, Dacae, Sacae, Scyth, Scythi, Scythia, Scythae, Sythia, Scythes, Skuthai, Skythai, Scythia, Skythia, Scynthia, Scynthius, Sclaveni, Sarmatian, Scoloti, Skodiai, Scotti, Skoloti, Skoth-ai, Skoth, Skuthes, Skuth-a, Askuza, Askuasa, Alani, Alans, Alanic, Ulan, Uhlan also Rasapu, Rashu, Rukhs, Rukhs-As, Rhos, Ros, Rosh, Rox, Roxolani, Rhoxolani, Ruskolan, Rosichi, Rhossi, Rusichi, Rus, Ruska, Rossiya, Russian ( Russians, Belarusians, Ukrainians ); also Mas-ar, Mas-gar, Masgar, Mazar, Madj, Madjar, Makr-on, Makar, Makaroi, Merkar, Magor, Magar, Magyar, Mohgur ( Hungarians-also Hungar, Hunugur, Hurri, Gurri, Onogur, Ugor, Ungar, Uhor, Venger ); Siberians, Croats, Serbs, Slovenes, Slovaks, Bulgars, Poles, Czechs, and other related groups );

After its introduction into India, the kite further evolved into the fighter kite known as the patang in India where thousands are flown every year on festivals such as Makar Sankranti.

The work of the Makar of the fifteenth and early sixteenth centuries was in part marked out by an adoption in vernacular languages of the new and greater variety in metrics and prosody current across Europe after the influence of such figures as Dante and Petrarch and similar to the route which Chaucer followed in England.

The unveiling ceremony was attended by Dorothy Dunnett's son, Mungo Dunnett and his family, the Lord Provost of Edinburgh, the Edinburgh Makar ( Valerie Gillies ), and the Ross Herald ( Charles Burnett ) as well as members of the Society and others.

Members of the movement were followed by a new generation of post-war poets including Edwin Morgan, who would be appointed the first Scots Makar by the inaugural Scottish government in 2004.

In January 2011 she was named as the second Scots Makar, or national poet, succeeding Edwin Morgan who had died the previous year.

Makar finds himself liked by even the writer Ratazyayev, who was using him as a figure in one of his stories because of his sad condition.

* Makar Chudra ( Макар Чудра ), short story, 1892

The story is put together in the form of a set of letters written between two people, Makar Devushkin and Varvara Dobrosyolova.

He had the boon of Ichha-Mrityu ( death at his will ) from his father, so he kept lying on the bed of arrows till this day and then left his mortal coil on Makar Sankranti day.

Makar Mela is observed at Dhabaleswar in Cuttack, Hatakeshwar at Atri in Puri, Makar Muni temple in Balasore and near various deities in each district of Orissa.

Many Melas or fairs are held on Makar Sankranti the most famous being the Kumbh Mela, held every 12 years at one of four holy locations, namely Haridwar, Prayag ( Allahabad ), Ujjain and Nashik.

On auspicious occasions like Mahashivratri, Rangapanchami, Makar Sankranti people take baths in river Godavari at Ramkund which is considered to be one of the most important places in Indian theology.

Every year on the immediately preceding Sunday of Makar Sankranti ( i. e. the Sunday just before the date when the Sun is about to enter the sign of Capricorn as per Indian Astrological / Sidereal calendar ), Swaadhyaaya Bhavan Ashram ( based at Mahalaxmi Nagar, Maheshwar ) organizes Mahaamrityunjaya Rath Yaatraa in the town of Maheshwar.

Makar Sankranti-is a bathing festival which falls either on January 13 or 14th when people take bath in the Alaknanda and big fairs ( Uttaraini ) are held at Karnprayag and Nandprayag.

Stewart Conn, Edinburgh's first appointed Makar, has celebrated Roull's memory in his volume Ghosts at Cockcrow.

Makar works as a lowly copyist, frequently belittled at his job and picked on.