Gudi Padwa · Ugadi Observance The same tithi as the Vikram Samvat new year, under the names the other regions give it.
The name
The same day, written in each of the six scripts this app keeps
- English
- Gudi Padwa · Ugadi
- हिन्दी
- गुड़ी पड़वा · उगादि
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
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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 same tithi as the Vikram Samvat new year, under the names the other regions give it. Maharashtra and Goa raise the gudi, a bamboo pole with a bright cloth, a garland and an inverted pot, over the door; Andhra, Telangana and Karnataka call it Ugadi; Kashmir calls it Navreh; the Sindhis keep Cheti Chand for Jhulelal.
- Deity
- Brahma, Vishnu
- Kind
- Observance Days marked, watched or begun, without a fast or a feast of their own.
The hour
The rule in words
Chaitra Shukla Pratipada at sunrise. The gudi is raised in the morning and taken down before sunset.
The fast
No fast. Maharashtra eats neem and jaggery together, and the Deccan the six-taste Ugadi pachadi, for the same reason.
Where the regions differ
One day, several names. It is a lunar new year, so it moves through late March and April, unlike the solar new years of Tamil Nadu, Kerala, Bengal and Assam a fortnight later.
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.