Anant Chaturdashi Festival The fourteenth day of the bright fortnight of Bhadrapada, when Vishnu as Ananta is worshipped and a fourteen-knot thread is tied on the arm for the year.
The name
The same day, written in each of the six scripts this app keeps
- English
- Anant Chaturdashi
- हिन्दी
- अनंत चतुर्दशी
- मराठी
- अनंत चतुर्दशी
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 fourteenth day of the bright fortnight of Bhadrapada, when Vishnu as Ananta is worshipped and a fourteen-knot thread is tied on the arm for the year. It is also the last day of the ten-day Ganesha festival: the largest idols go through the streets to the sea or the river and are immersed through the night.
- Deity
- Ananta, Vishnu, Ganesha
- Kind
- Festival Days of celebration: the house is decorated, a feast is cooked and the temple is visited.
The hour
The rule in words
Shukla Chaturdashi at sunrise; the Ananta vrat puja is at midday and the visarjan processions run from the afternoon into the night.
The fast
Those keeping the vrat fast until the puja and then eat once, avoiding salt in the strict form. The Jains keep the same day as the last of Paryushana, with Kshamavani the day after.
Where the regions differ
Mumbai's visarjan is the public face of the day; the Ananta vrat is kept in Odisha, Maharashtra and the Telugu country under the name Ananta Padmanabha Vratam.
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.