Ghee Sankranti · Olgia Festival The day ghee is eaten by everyone in the house, a lump of it on bedu roti and a little rubbed on the head of the children, at the turn of the monsoon when the cattle are in milk and the crop is standing.

English

Ghee Sankranti · Olgia

कुमाउँनी

घ्यूँ त्यार · ओलगिया

गढ़वाली

घी संग्रांद

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. Tuesday, 17 August 2027
2. Wednesday, 16 August 2028
3. Friday, 17 August 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 ghee is eaten by everyone in the house, a lump of it on bedu roti and a little rubbed on the head of the children, at the turn of the monsoon when the cattle are in milk and the crop is standing. The saying is that whoever eats no ghee today is born a snail in the next life. It is also Olgia, the olag or offering day: the sister’s son carried ghee, curd, a cucumber and the first of the standing crop to his maternal uncle, the tenant to the thokdar, and the carpenter and the blacksmith to the household they serve.

Deity

Surya

Kind

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

The first day of the solar month of Bhado, which is the gate day the Sun enters Simha, in the middle of August.

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.

No fast, and the opposite of one: ghee on bedu roti, on arsa, in the dal and on the children’s heads.

Kumaon calls it Olgia and Ghyun Tyar and keeps the olag; Garhwal calls it Ghee Sankranti; Himachal keeps the same ingress as a ghee and curd day without the olag. No other tradition on this calendar marks the Simha sankranti at all.

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.

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.