Ugadi — yuga plus adi, the beginning of an age — opens the lunar new year in Andhra, Telangana and Karnataka; Maharashtra keeps the same day as Gudi Padwa. Its central custom is honest: a dish of six tastes eaten together, because the year ahead will contain all of them.
Source: Panchanga tradition; Brahma Purana on creation at Chaitra Shukla Pratipada
yugādi
The beginning of the age — the day tradition assigns to the start of creation and of each reckoned year.
Honoured deity: Brahma as creator, with Vishnu invoked for the year
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