Vasant Panchami heralds the spring season. It is one of the first festivals of the year and is celebrated all over India. Celebrated with gaiety and festivity, it marks the end of the winter. In a wider sense it marks the departure of winter, symbolic of the end of darkness and ignorance and the beginning of spring, symbolic of knowledge. Vasant : Spring. Panchami : 5 (Fifth day of Magh)
