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==== Holi ====
{{Main|Holi}}
[[File:3 Nichal Chand (attr) Krishna Celebrates Holi with Radha and the Gopis 1750-60 Boston MFA.jpg|thumb|''Krishna Celebrates Holi with Radha and the Gopis'' by [[Nihâl Chand|Nihal Chand]], [[Kishangarh]], 1750-60]]

Holi, one of the major Hindu festival, also called ''festival of love'' and ''festival of colors'' also celebrates the divine and eternal love of Radha and [[Krishna]]. [[Mathura]] and Vrindavan are known for their Holi celebrations. According to popular legend associated with [[Radha Krishna]], as a child, Krishna would cry to his mother [[Yashoda]] about Radha being fair while he had a dark complexion. His mother then advised him to smear colour of his choice on Radha's face, thus giving birth to Braj ki Holi. It is said that every year, Lord Krishna would travel from his village [[Nandgaon, Uttar Pradesh|Nandgaon]] to Goddess Radha's village Barsana, where Radha and the [[gopi]]s would playfully beat him with sticks.<ref>Yudit Greenberg, Encyclopedia of Love in World Religions, Volume 1, {{ISBN|978-1851099801}}, p. 212</ref><ref>{{cite book |author=McKim Marriott |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9hairjdT-ekC |title=The Life of Hinduism |publisher=University of California Press |year=2006 |isbn=978-0-520-24914-1 |editor=John Stratton Hawley and Vasudha Narayanan |page=102}}, Quote: "Holi, he said with a beatific sigh, is the Festival of Love!"</ref> In present times, Holi celebrations in Barsana begin one week before the actual date of the festival, moving to Nandgaon the next day. In Mathura and Vrindavan, the festival is celebrated in different forms like [[Lathmar Holi]] in Barsana and Nandgaon, where sticks are used to create playful beats, to which young men and women dance; Phoolon wali Holi in Gulaal Kund near the [[Govardhan Hill]], during which [[Raslila|Ras Leela]] is performed and Holi is played with colourful flowers and Widow's Holi in Vrindavan.<ref>{{Cite web|title=Incredible India {{!}} Braj ki Holi|url=https://www.incredibleindia.org/content/incredible-india-v2/en/destinations/mathura-vrindavan/braj-ki-holi.html|access-date=2021-05-29|website=www.incredibleindia.org}}</ref>