India, who accepted all Festivals worldwide, celebrated this Festival of Plentitude, in the same way She celebrates XMas and Eid, due to her ecumenical or syncretic outook on Life, Sarva Dharma Samabhava. Wherein the Lord removed the Ego of an Emperor ! A Divine Land, from the Himalayas to the Indian Ocean, the Eternal Land, called the Land of the Eternals ,has a divine mission to fulfill, that of World Peace ! Himalaya Samarambham / Yavat Indu Saarovaram / Tam Deva Nirmitham Desam/ Hindustanam Prackshate /