Chingam 1 · Kollavarsham begins Observance The first day of Chingam and of the Malayalam year, counted in the Kollam era, which is the Common Era year less 824 from this day.
The name
The same day, written in each of the six scripts this app keeps
- English
- Chingam 1 · Kollavarsham begins
- മലയാളം
- ചിങ്ങം 1 · കൊല്ലവർഷാരംഭം
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When it falls next
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What the day is
The first day of Chingam and of the Malayalam year, counted in the Kollam era, which is the Common Era year less 824 from this day. It is also Karshaka Dinam, the farmers' day, and the first harvest of the year is brought in; businesses in Kerala open their new account books on it.
- Deity
- Ganapathi, Lakshmi
- Kind
- Observance Days marked, watched or begun, without a fast or a feast of their own.
The hour
The rule in words
The first day of the Malayalam solar month Chingam, which begins on the day the Sun enters Simha before aparahna, otherwise the day after.
The fast
No fast is kept. The first rice of the harvest is cooked and offered at the household shrine.
Where the regions differ
A Kerala reckoning; Tamil Nadu counts its year from Chithirai and the lunar calendars from Ugadi, so four new years fall in four different months across the south.
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.