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The fair held during Holi and Hola at [[Anandpur Sahib]] is traditionally a three-day event but participants attend Anandpur Sahib for a week, camping out and enjoying various displays of fighting prowess and bravery, and listening to [[kirtan]], music and poetry.<ref name="Ceremonies">{{cite web |url=http://www.sikhworld.co.uk/page22.html |title=Sikh Ceremonies |access-date=2008-09-17 |work=SikhWorld.co.uk |author=Amolak Singh}}</ref> For meals, which is an integral part of the Sikh institution ([[Gurdwara]]), visitors sit together in ''Pangats'' (Queues) and eat [[lacto-vegetarian]] food of the [[Langar (Sikhism)|Langars]].<ref name="SikhChic">{{cite web |url=http://www.sikhchic.com/article-detail.php?id=119&cat=5 |title=The Hola Mohalla Festival |access-date=2008-09-17 |work=SikhChic.com |date=March 2007}}</ref> The event concludes on the day of Hola Mohalla with a long, "military-style" procession near [[Takht Kesgarh Sahib]], one of the five seats of temporal authority (referred as "[[Panj Takht]]") of the Sikhs.<ref name="Celebrate">{{cite web |url=http://www.gurbani.org/articles/webart304.htm |title=Celebrating Holi |access-date=2008-09-17 |work=Reflections On Gurbani |author=T. Singh |date= 15 August 2008 }}</ref>
Kamal Kishore
'''Hola Mohalla''' or '''Hola Mahalla''' or simply '''Hola''' is a Sikh festival that takes place on the first of the lunar month of Chet which usually falls in '''March'''. This, by a tradition established by Guru Gobind Singh, follows the Hindu festival of Holi by one day; Hola is the masculine form of the feminine sounding '''Holi'''.
The word '''"Mohalla"''' is derived from the Arabic root '''hal''' (alighting, descending) and is a Punjabi word that implies an organized procession in the form of an army column. But unlike Holi, when people playfully sprinkle colored powder, dry or mixed in water, on each other, the Guru made Hola Mohalla an occasion for the Sikhs to demonstrate their martial skills in simulated battles.
Together the phrase '''"Hola Mohalla"''' stands for "mock fight". During this festival, processions are organised in the form of army type columns accompanied by war-drums, standard-bearers, who proceed to a given spot or move in state from one gurdwara to another. The custom originated in the time of Guru Gobind Singh who held the first such mock fight event at Anandpur in February 1701.
== Etymology ==
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