Champa Shashthi Festival The sixth day of the bright fortnight of Margashirsha, the last of the six days of the Khandoba navratra at Jejuri.
The name
The same day, written in each of the six scripts this app keeps
- English
- Champa Shashthi
- हिन्दी
- चंपा षष्ठी
- मराठी
- चंपाषष्ठी
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.
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The date of a festival depends on the place: a tithi that ends at dusk in Chennai can still be running at dusk a thousand kilometres west, which moves the day. Sunrise and sunset here are computed for the place above.
When it falls next
Looking for the calendar this day belongs to
This day does not fall again in the next three years at this place. A few days are tied to the solar month rather than to the civil year, so a year can hold two of them or none.
What the day is
The sixth day of the bright fortnight of Margashirsha, the last of the six days of the Khandoba navratra at Jejuri. Khandoba, the Martanda Bhairava form of Shiva whom much of the Deccan keeps as a kuladaivat, is held to have killed the demons Mani and Malla on it, and bhandara, turmeric powder, is thrown until the hill and everyone on it is yellow. The six days' vow is given up at the temple.
- Deity
- Khandoba, Martanda Bhairava, Shiva
- Kind
- Festival Days of celebration: the house is decorated, a feast is cooked and the temple is visited.
The hour
The rule in words
Margashirsha shuddha Shashthi at sunrise; the naivedya is offered and the vow given up at the temple during the day.
The fast
Those keeping the navratra fast six days from the Pratipada on one meal a day, and break it on this day with the naivedya of brinjal bhaji, bajra bhakri and a patal bhaji.
Where the regions differ
Maharashtra and northern Karnataka keep Khandoba at Jejuri, Pali and Nagar; the same deity is Mailara in Karnataka and Mallanna in Telangana, and the days kept for him differ from shrine to shrine.
Fixing a day for it
The muhurtham rules that go with this festival
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.
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.