Bisu Parba · Bisu Kani Festival The Tulu new year, Paggu 1, the first day of the first month of the Tulu calendar.

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Bisu Parba · Bisu Kani

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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.

1. Thursday, 15 April 2027
2. Friday, 14 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 Tulu new year, Paggu 1, the first day of the first month of the Tulu calendar. At first light the household is led with eyes down to the Bisu Kani and told to look: a pot of water, raw rice, two betel leaves, a half dehusked coconut, kepula flowers, a sandalwood stick, the vegetables and the fruit of the season, gold and a mirror, so that the year is met with food, growth and one's own face. The Panchanga Shravana, the reading out of the new almanac, is done at the Udupi Sri Krishna Matha before the Ashta Mathadhishas, and in the fields the first seed of the year is sown. Tulu Nadu calls the day Souramana Yugadi, the solar new year, against the Chandramana Yugadi the rest of Karnataka keeps three or four weeks earlier.

Deity

Surya, Vishnu

Kind

Festival Days of celebration: the house is decorated, a feast is cooked and the temple is visited.

Paggu 1, which is the first sunrise after the Mesha sankranti, because the Tulu month gives the sankranti day to the month going out. The kani is seen at dawn.

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 is kept. The kani is eaten after it is seen, and the meal is the payasa, the chutney of the new mango and the first jackfruit of the year.

Tulu Nadu keeps it as Bisu Parba; Kerala keeps the same morning as Vishu with the same kani, and Tamil Nadu as Puthandu, but the Malayalam and Tamil month can begin a day earlier than the Tulu one.

The dates above are the Tulu Nadu 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.