Amavasya · New moon Observance The new moon: in the purnimanta reckoning it falls in the middle of the month rather than at its end.
The name
The same day, written in each of the six scripts this app keeps
- English
- Amavasya · New moon
- हिन्दी
- अमावस्या
Only the names actually in use are listed. A blank script is not an omission: the day may simply not be kept there, or be kept under a different festival's name.
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The date of a festival depends on the place: a tithi that ends at dusk in Chennai can still be running at dusk a thousand kilometres west, which moves the day. Sunrise and sunset here are computed for the place above.
When it falls next
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This day does not fall again in the next three years at this place. A few days are tied to the solar month rather than to the civil year, so a year can hold two of them or none.
What the day is
The new moon: in the purnimanta reckoning it falls in the middle of the month rather than at its end. It is a day for a bath in a river, for daan of sesame, grain and cloth, and for tarpan for the ancestors. Somavati Amavasya, one that falls on a Monday, is kept with the peepal tree circumambulated a hundred and eight times.
- Deity
- Pitrus, Shani, Yama
- Kind
- Observance Days marked, watched or begun, without a fast or a feast of their own.
The hour
The rule in words
The Amavasya tithi at sunrise; the bath is at dawn and the tarpan in the afternoon.
The fast
Many keep a fast until the bath and the daan are done. No auspicious work is begun on the day.
Where the regions differ
The named ones carry the weight: Mauni Amavasya in Magha, Sarva Pitru Amavasya in Ashwina, and the Diwali Amavasya in Kartika. The southern equivalent is Amavasai, kept with monthly tarpanam.
Every date here is computed from the Sun and Moon for the place entered, by the rule printed beside it. A printed panchangam can differ by a day where an almanac reads a tithi at a different instant, and a family's own custom always comes first. Where the practice genuinely varies, the text says so rather than choosing for you.