Anla Nabami Vratam The day the amla tree, the Indian gooseberry, is worshipped as the form Vishnu is held to dwell in through the month of Kartika.

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Anla Nabami

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Worked out for Chennai, Lahiri ayanamsa. A date is a function of the place: set yours above and the next three come back for where you are.

The day the amla tree, the Indian gooseberry, is worshipped as the form Vishnu is held to dwell in through the month of Kartika. The tree is watered, wound with thread and lamped, and the meal of the day is cooked at its foot and eaten in its shade, because the leaves are said to purify whatever is eaten under them. In Odisha it also closes the hardest stretch of Habisha, the month-long Kartika fast the older women keep on one saltless meal a day, and the Jagannath temple shows a special besha for it.

Deity

Vishnu, Lakshmi, Dhatri

Kind

Vratam Days kept by a fast or a vow, most of them coming round every lunar month.

Kartika Sukla Nabami, the tithi running at sunrise. The puja is in the forenoon and the meal under the tree at midday.

Sunrise 06:09, sunset 17:39, UTC+5.5. These are the instants the rule is read at, not the temple's own puja times, which every temple prints for itself.

The Habisha keepers eat one saltless meal, cooked without onion, garlic or turmeric and taken under the amla tree. Others keep no fast and only eat the meal there.

Odisha keeps it as Anla Nabami inside the Kartika Habisha; the north keeps the same tithi as Akshaya Navami and Amla Navami and begins the Vrindavan parikrama on it, and Mathura keeps it as the day the Dwapara yuga is held to have begun.

The dates above are the Odisha reckoning, because that is the calendar this key belongs to. Switch the tradition on the calendar page to see how another one dates the same day.

A temple visit, or the first darshan at a new temple. No weekday is ruled out: Tuesday belongs to Murugan and the Amman, Saturday to Perumal and Sani, so the day usually follows the deity rather than the almanac. Ashtami and Chaturdasi are the two tithis held back for darshan, with the standing exceptions of Sivaratri on Krishna Chaturdasi and Kala Bhairava Ashtami, which are kept on those very days. Rahu kaal, Yamaganda and Gulika kaal are not scored here; the panchangam page prints them for the day you pick, and most families simply wait them out.

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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.