Anant Chaturdashi (Ganesh Visarjan) · Anant Chaturdashi

Culture of origin: Hindu · Cultural

Holiday sources: Hinduism

Anant Chaturdashi is the last day of the ten-day Ganesh Chaturthi festival, when Ganesha's images are carried in procession with music and chanting and immersed (visarjana) in rivers and the sea; in Mumbai alone about 150,000 are immersed each year. The day is also dedicated to Vishnu as Ananta, the divine serpent Shesha, whose vow is marked by tying a sacred thread with fourteen knots on the wrist.