Every festival and fasting day ahead, with the tithi worked out for Bengaluru. Each fast is matched at the moment that decides it - sunrise, midday, dusk, moonrise or midnight - so the same fast can fall a day apart between cities. Change the city and the dates move with it.
The fast breaks next morning, but only inside one window.
Fasting day for Vishnu, twice a month (11th tithi of each paksha).
Paran is after sunrise on Dwadashi, after Hari Vasara has passed and before Dwadashi ends - often only two to four hours, and it moves with your city.
Bhadrapada Shukla Paksha Ekadashi
Take darshan of Shiva framed between Nandi's horns.
Evening worship of Shiva on the 13th tithi of each paksha.
Go at the pradosha hour and wait for the abhishekam of Nandi. Carry bilva leaves for Shiva; in many Tamil temples a garland of arugampul is offered to Nandi too.
Bhadrapada Shukla Paksha Trayodashi · The hour is after sunset.
Shraddha follows the tithi they died, not a printed date.
Sixteen Shraddha tithis, from Purnima Shraddha on 26 Sep to Sarva Pitru Amavasya on 10 Oct.
For most ancestors the shraddha is the lunar day they died, which is one day inside the fortnight rather than a fixed date. Some deaths are kept on set tithis instead, and if the day is unknown or missed, Sarva Pitru Amavasya covers everyone.
Satyanarayana prasad is measured in sava - one and a quarter.
Full moon day. The Satyanarayan puja is usually done in the evening, but the day itself is fixed by the sunrise tithi, as printed panchangs list it.
Make sapada bhakshya: one and a quarter measures each of rava, sugar, ghee and milk, with banana stirred in at the end. The sava measure is the thing to learn.
Bhadrapada Shukla Paksha Purnima
The fast breaks only when you have seen the moon.
Monthly Ganesha vrat on Krishna paksha Chaturthi.
Look up moonrise for your own city before you plan dinner - it runs more than an hour and a half apart between the east and the west of the country. Keep water, durva and flowers ready.
Krishna Paksha Chaturthi · Break the fast after moonrise.
Fasting day for Vishnu, twice a month (11th tithi of each paksha).
Bhadrapada Krishna Paksha Ekadashi
Evening worship of Shiva on the 13th tithi of each paksha.
Bhadrapada Krishna Paksha Trayodashi · The hour is after sunset.
Shiva's hour is midnight, not morning.
Monthly Shiva night on Krishna paksha Chaturdashi.
The linga abhisheka belongs in the nishita window, about 48 minutes around local midnight. It shifts city to city, so read it off your own panchang.
Krishna Paksha Chaturdashi · The hour is around midnight.
Black sesame in water, poured between thumb and finger.
New moon day. Tarpan for the ancestors is done in the afternoon, but the day itself is fixed by the sunrise tithi, as printed panchangs list it.
The home tarpana: bathe, face south, and let the water fall through the pitru-tirtha - the gap between thumb and index finger kept for ancestors - not over the fingertips.
Bhadrapada Krishna Paksha Amavasya
Sow barley on day one; by Dashami the shoots stand green.
Ghatasthapana on 11 Oct. Nine nights of the Devi; Dussehra 20 Oct.
Set up Ghatasthapana at home - a clay pot, two inches of soil, a handful of barley under the kalash - and water it through the nine nights. What households do with the shoots afterwards differs.
Two Ganesha chaturthis a month. This is the midday one.
Monthly Ganesha vrat on Shukla paksha Chaturthi.
This one is worshipped in the madhyahna window and the fast breaks after it. The dark-fortnight Sankashti is the other one, where you wait for the moon.
Ashwina Shukla Paksha Chaturthi · Worship is at midday.
In Kerala a child's first letters are written in rice today.
Vijayadashami. Ayudha Puja and Shami puja; Vijay Muhurat 1:59-2:45 PM.
Vidyarambham at home: a child in an elder's lap, raw rice on a thali, and the first words traced with their finger. Ask an elder or your purohit for the words your family uses.
Fasting day for Vishnu, twice a month (11th tithi of each paksha).
Ashwina Shukla Paksha Ekadashi
Evening worship of Shiva on the 13th tithi of each paksha.
Shukla Paksha Trayodashi · The hour is after sunset.
Full moon day. The Satyanarayan puja is usually done in the evening, but the day itself is fixed by the sunrise tithi, as printed panchangs list it.
Ashwina Shukla Paksha Purnima
Sargi before sunrise - the thali that has to last till moonrise.
Delhi moonrise 8:17 PM; puja muhurat 5:38 to 6:56 PM.
Put the pre-dawn sargi together and finish it before sunrise: fenia, dry fruit, a paratha and plenty of water. Traditionally the mother-in-law sends it.
Monthly Ganesha vrat on Krishna paksha Chaturthi.
Ashwina Krishna Paksha Chaturthi · Break the fast after moonrise.
Fasting day for Vishnu, twice a month (11th tithi of each paksha).
Ashwina Krishna Paksha Ekadashi
The Yama deepam belongs outside the door, facing south.
Puja muhurat approx 6:02 to 7:57 PM, in pradosh kaal. Lakshmi puja at home opens the Diwali week.
Light the four-wick clay diya after sunset on the threshold, not on the puja altar with the Lakshmi lamps. It is offered to Yama and it stays outside.
Evening worship of Shiva on the 13th tithi of each paksha.
Krishna Paksha Trayodashi · The hour is after sunset.
Monthly Shiva night on Krishna paksha Chaturdashi.
Krishna Paksha Chaturdashi · The hour is around midnight.
Lakshmi's oldest hymn asks Agni to bring her. Learn verse one.
Lakshmi puja muhurat approx 5:54 to 7:50 PM on 8 Nov. Govardhan 10 Nov, Bhai Dooj 11 Nov.
The Sri Suktam opens by asking Agni to bring Lakshmi in. Learning even its first verse means the household recites at the evening puja instead of playing a recording.
New moon day. Tarpan for the ancestors is done in the afternoon, but the day itself is fixed by the sunrise tithi, as printed panchangs list it.
Ashwina Krishna Paksha Amavasya
Thekua: wheat flour, jaggery and ghee, pressed in a wooden mould.
Four days, Nahay Khay to Usha Arghya. Sandhya Arghya on 15 Nov.
Make both offerings yourself - thekua pressed in a wooden mould and fried slow in ghee, and the Kharna evening rasiao, a rice kheer cooked with jaggery.
Monthly Ganesha vrat on Shukla paksha Chaturthi.
Kartika Shukla Paksha Chaturthi · Worship is at midday.
Fasting day for Vishnu, twice a month (11th tithi of each paksha).
Shukla Paksha Ekadashi
A white cloth is held between Tulsi and Shaligram. Then it drops.
After Dev Uthani Ekadashi - the wedding season opens.
In Maharashtrian and Konkani homes the cloth is held between the Tulsi plant and the Shaligram, the Mangalashtaka is chanted, and it drops on the last verse - a family wedding in miniature. Other regions keep the day differently.
Evening worship of Shiva on the 13th tithi of each paksha.
Kartika Shukla Paksha Trayodashi · The hour is after sunset.
In Odisha, tiny banana-stem boats sail at dawn for Bali.
Snan, deep daan and Dev Deepawali. A favoured day for Satyanarayan Puja.
Make a miniature boita with the children - banana stem or folded paper, a lit diya, betel leaf, betel nut and a coin - and float it at first light while telling them the Kalinga sailors' story.
Monthly Ganesha vrat on Krishna paksha Chaturthi.
Krishna Paksha Chaturthi · Break the fast after moonrise.
Fasting day for Vishnu, twice a month (11th tithi of each paksha).
Kartika Krishna Paksha Ekadashi
Evening worship of Shiva on the 13th tithi of each paksha.
Kartika Krishna Paksha Trayodashi · The hour is after sunset.
Monthly Shiva night on Krishna paksha Chaturdashi.
Kartika Krishna Paksha Chaturdashi · The hour is around midnight.
New moon day. Tarpan for the ancestors is done in the afternoon, but the day itself is fixed by the sunrise tithi, as printed panchangs list it.
Kartika Krishna Paksha Amavasya
Monthly Ganesha vrat on Shukla paksha Chaturthi.
Margashirsha Shukla Paksha Chaturthi · Worship is at midday.
The day Sita and Rama were married. Many families keep it for a Satyanarayan Puja at home.
Mokshada Ekadashi, kept as the day the Gita was spoken. A day for paath at home.
Fasting day for Vishnu, twice a month (11th tithi of each paksha).
Margashirsha Shukla Paksha Ekadashi
Evening worship of Shiva on the 13th tithi of each paksha.
Shukla Paksha Trayodashi · The hour is after sunset.
Full moon day. The Satyanarayan puja is usually done in the evening, but the day itself is fixed by the sunrise tithi, as printed panchangs list it.
Margashirsha Shukla Paksha Purnima
Monthly Ganesha vrat on Krishna paksha Chaturthi.
Krishna Paksha Chaturthi · Break the fast after moonrise.
Fasting day for Vishnu, twice a month (11th tithi of each paksha).
Margashirsha Krishna Paksha Ekadashi
Evening worship of Shiva on the 13th tithi of each paksha.
Margashirsha Krishna Paksha Trayodashi · The hour is after sunset.
Monthly Shiva night on Krishna paksha Chaturdashi.
Krishna Paksha Chaturdashi · The hour is around midnight.
New moon day. Tarpan for the ancestors is done in the afternoon, but the day itself is fixed by the sunrise tithi, as printed panchangs list it.
Margashirsha Krishna Paksha Amavasya
Monthly Ganesha vrat on Shukla paksha Chaturthi.
Shukla Paksha Chaturthi · Worship is at midday.
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Ekadashi twice a month, Pradosham on the thirteenth tithi of each paksha, Sankashti Chaturthi and Vinayaka Chaturthi, Purnima, Amavasya and Masik Shivratri - alongside the festivals of the season.
From the actual positions of the sun and moon, using the Drik (Lahiri) system for each city's own coordinates - the same calculations the printed panchangs rely on. Each fast is matched at the moment that decides it, not always at sunrise: Pradosham at dusk, Sankashti after moonrise, Masik Shivratri around midnight, Vinayaka Chaturthi at midday.
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