Bahi Khata Pujan · the Marwari new year Observance The morning the Marwari trading house closes the old ledger and opens the new one.

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Bahi Khata Pujan · the Marwari new year

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बही खाता पूजन

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बही खाता पूजन

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.

1. Tuesday, 10 November 2026
2. Saturday, 30 October 2027
3. Wednesday, 18 October 2028

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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 morning the Marwari trading house closes the old ledger and opens the new one. The bahi is bound in red cloth, श्री is written at the head of the first page with शुभ लाभ beside it, a silver coin and a little kumkum are put on it, and no figure is entered until that is done. The year a Marwari firm counts has been reckoned from this Diwali for as long as the firms have existed, and the families that left Shekhawati for Calcutta and Bombay took the day with them. The same tithi is Govardhan Puja, and the annakut is raised before Shrinathji at Nathdwara on it.

Deity

Lakshmi, Ganesha, Krishna

Kind

Observance Days marked, watched or begun, without a fast or a feast of their own.

Kartika Shukla Pratipada at sunrise, the morning after the Diwali new moon; the ledger is worshipped and opened in the forenoon, before the shop takes any business.

Sunrise 06:06, sunset 17:40, 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.

No fast. The sweets of the Diwali days are still in the house and are shared at the shop.

Gujarat turns its Vikram Samvat number on this tithi as Bestu Varas and Rajasthan does not, holding the printed number until Chaitra Shukla Pratipada; the old mercantile Karttikadi year of Marwar cut a fortnight later still, at the Kartika Krishna Pratipada after the full moon. The north keeps the day as Govardhan Puja alone.

The dates above are the Rajasthan 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.

• Shrinathji Temple, Nathdwara 1,481 km
  Rajsamand, Rajasthan

  The entry for this day names Nathdwara, and it is a temple of Krishna. The same tithi is Govardhan Puja, and the annakut is raised before Shrinathji at Nathdwara on it.

A temple is listed here only where the gazetteer's own line names this day, or where this day's own entry names the town, or where the day belongs to the ancestors or the nagas and the temple is recorded for that rite. Where neither table says anything, nothing is listed. Your family's own temple comes first, and its calendar is the one that decides.

Opening a shop or starting a new venture. Abhijit, the eighth muhurtham of the day, is the standing fallback for an opening and is marked on the windows below. The lagna rule here is the general one for a new undertaking, a fixed sign for best and a dual sign for acceptable, since almanacs do not agree on a single list for a shop.

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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.