Bikhauti · Vishuvat Sankranti · Bishu Observance The day the Sun enters Mesha, on which the solar calendars of the east and the south begin their year.

1. Wednesday, 14 April 2027
2. Thursday, 13 April 2028
3. Saturday, 14 April 2029

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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 Sun enters Mesha, on which the solar calendars of the east and the south begin their year. Bengal opens the halkhata, the new account book, for Poila Boishakh; Assam keeps Bohag Bihu with the cattle and the husori songs; Kerala keeps Vishu, Tamil Nadu Puthandu and Odisha Pana Sankranti. The Punjab keeps Vaisakhi as the harvest and the founding of the Khalsa.

Deity

Surya

Kind

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

The first day of the solar month of Baisakh, which is the gate day the Sun enters Mesha, taken as the civil day that holds the ingress. The bath is before sunrise. That is the Nepali Baisakh 1 rule and it can fall a day before the before-sunset reading this entry’s base uses.

Sunrise 05:57, sunset 18:22, 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. Each region keeps its own feast: the Bengali panta bhat and ilish, the Kerala sadya, the Tamil mangai pachadi.

English

Bikhauti · Vishuvat Sankranti · Bishu

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सौर नववर्ष

कुमाउँनी

बिखौती

गढ़वाली

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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.

The North Indian lunar year has already turned at Chaitra Shukla Pratipada, a fortnight earlier, so the north marks this day only in passing. Vaisakhi is dated by the Nanakshahi calendar and can fall a day off the sankranti. Kumaon bathes in a river or at a dhara before sunrise and holds the Syalde Bikhauti at Dwarahat, where the Malla and Talla halves of the town come down to the Vimandeshwar maidan with drums and the Odha dance; the Thal and Jauljibi fairs of Pithoragarh belong to the same season. Jaunsar-Bawar in Uttarakhand and Sirmaur in Himachal, on either side of the state line, keep the morning as Bishu with one fair between them.

The dates above are the Himachal · Uttarakhand 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.

• Achankovil Sree Dharma Sastha Temple 561 km
  Kollam, Kerala

  The gazetteer line for this temple names the day. Mandalam and the Meena Vishu festival are its seasons.

• Ananthapura Lake Temple 576 km
  Kumbla, Kasaragod, Kerala

  The gazetteer line for this temple names the day. Vishu is its day.

• Kulathupuzha Sree Dharma Sastha Temple 582 km
  Kollam, Kerala

  The gazetteer line for this temple names the day. Meena Vishu and the Mandalam season are its days.

• Sabarimala Sri Dharmasastha Temple 535 km
  Pathanamthitta, Kerala

  The gazetteer line names the day as the edge of this temple’s open season. Open in Mandala-Makaravilakku (mid-November to mid-January), the first five days of each Malayalam month and Vishu

1 more temple in this gazetteer is recorded for the day. Find temples near you.

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.

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.