Chaliho Sahib Vratam The forty days of austerity and thanksgiving kept for Jhulelal, named from the Sindhi chaliha, forty.

English

Chaliho Sahib

सिंधी

चालीहो साहिब

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. Friday, 16 July 2027
2. Sunday, 16 July 2028
3. Monday, 16 July 2029

See the whole year on the calendar →

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 forty days of austerity and thanksgiving kept for Jhulelal, named from the Sindhi chaliha, forty. They repeat the forty days the Hindus of Sindh are held to have kept on the bank of the Indus when they were given forty days to convert. A household that keeps the Chaliho lights a jyot before Jhulelal on the first morning and does not let it go out for the forty days, eats once a day, cuts no hair, does not shave and wears nothing new, and sings the Jhulelal panjras at the darbar in the evening.

Deity

Jhulelal, Varuna

Kind

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

The forty days from 16 July to 24 August inclusive, which is sixteen days of July and twenty-four of August and so exactly forty. They are kept on the Gregorian dates and not on a tithi, which is unusual on this calendar and is what the Sindhi panchayats print; some families reckon the forty from the lunar month instead.

This day carries no instant that can be put on a clock: it is fixed by the tithi or the nakshatra running at sunrise, or by a moonrise the app does not compute. The rule above is the whole of it.

One plain meal a day in the houses that keep it strictly, without onion or garlic, and the rest of the day without food. The fortieth day is broken on the prasad of the Behrana Sahib and the langar at the darbar.

Kept hardest in Ulhasnagar and at the Sindhi darbars of Ajmer, Jaipur, Bhopal and Indore, where the jyot burns at the darbar for whoever cannot keep one at home. The forty days fall inside the chaturmas, so no wedding is held in them in any case.

The dates above are the Sindhi 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.

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.