Dahi handi is a sport, particularly popular in Maharashtra, in which pots of curd are hung up high and people form human pyramids to reach and break them. It typically takes place the day after Janmashtami. The game imitates Krishna’s childhood play in which he and his friends steal dairy products from pots that the cowherd mothers in Gokula tried to suspend out of reach.
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