Guwahati, March 20 -- In the spring season, the Holi festival is celebrated almost in all parts of northern India. Before the appearance of Sankaradeva, it is not clearly known whether this spring festival known as Doul Yatra or Phakuwa in Assam, was celebrated in ancient Assam. It seems that Sankaradeva for the first time introduced this festival after returning from his pilgrimage in order to propagate the Bhakti cult. It has been emphatically expressed in the Bhakti treatise, especially in the Bhagavat Puran, that the divine activities of Lord Krishna play the most important role to rouse the Krishna consciousness in the heart of his devotees. In the 11th canto of the Bhagavat Puran, it has been specially advised that the people who desi...