Vratam Parvati, Shiva
Hariyali Teej
The green teej of the monsoon, on the third day of the bright fortnight of Shravana, kept by married women in Rajasthan, Haryana and western Uttar Pradesh for Parvati, who won Shiva by her penance.
Hariyali Teej 2027 falls on Wednesday, 4 August, computed for Chennai.
Latitude, longitude and time zone 13.08, 80.27
Asia/Kolkata · UTC+5:30
The date of a festival depends on the place.
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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
North India calendar, computed for Chennai
- Wednesday, 4 August 2027
- Monday, 24 July 2028
- Sunday, 12 August 2029
Where Hariyali Teej falls on the solar year, and how far the date moves between occurrences.
- 2027: 4 Aug
- 2028: 24 Jul, 10 days earlier
- 2029: 12 Aug, 18 days later
The dates, year by year
North India calendar, computed for Chennai
What the day is
The green teej of the monsoon, on the third day of the bright fortnight of Shravana, kept by married women in Rajasthan, Haryana and western Uttar Pradesh for Parvati, who won Shiva by her penance. Swings are hung from the trees, hands are painted with mehndi, green bangles and green clothes are worn, and the sindhara, a gift from the mother's house, arrives.
- Deity
- Parvati, Shiva
- Kind
- Vratam Days kept by a fast or a vow, most of them coming round every lunar month.
Significance
The story told on this Teej is that Parvati was born a hundred and eight times, keeping her penance life after life, before Shiva at last accepted her on this Tritiya, so the day is kept for a marriage that was waited for and won. It comes with the first real green of the monsoon, and the swings, the kajri and malhar songs and the green clothes are the women's way of meeting the season as Parvati met Shiva. A new bride spends her first Sawan at her mother's house, and the sindhara, the parcel of ghewar, bangles, mehndi, a lehariya sari and sweets, goes from the mother's house to every married daughter, which is why the day is also called Sindhara Teej. Unmarried girls keep it too, for a husband like Shiva, and in Vrindavan it is the one day of the year that Banke Bihari sits on his golden swing.
How it is kept
The puja as a household does it, in order. Tick each step as it is done.
Hariyali Teej: how it is kept
Keep ready
- mehndi
- green glass bangles
- a green or lehariya sari
- clay or pictured images of Shiva, Parvati and Ganesha
- a red cloth and a kalash
- suhag items: sindoor, bindi, kajal and a chunri
- bel leaves and dhatura
- a jhoola (swing) with strong ropes
- ghewar and fruit for the bhog
- the baya for the mother-in-law
The steps
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What is cooked
Ghewar, the honeycombed disc soaked in syrup and topped with rabri or malai, is the sweet of the day in Rajasthan and Haryana, with feeni, malpua and kheer; the meal after the fast is puri, dal, kadhi and the season's sabzi. Haryana's sindhara carries suhali and mathri with the ghewar, and the Punjab fries pooda and gulgule for its Teeyan.
The hour
Clock times for Wednesday, 4 August 2027 at Chennai
Shravana Shukla Tritiya at sunrise; the puja is in the evening, after the swing and the songs.
The main rite. Shravana Shukla Tritiya holding the sunrise; the swinging and the songs fill the afternoon, and the Shiva Parvati puja and the katha are done in the evening, after which the fast is broken.
| Instant | Time | What it is |
|---|---|---|
| Sunrise | 05:55 | the udaya tithi, the tithi running as the sun comes up |
Sunrise 05:55, sunset 18:35, UTC+5.5. These are the instants the rule is read at, not the temple's own puja times, which every temple prints for itself.
The day itself
| What | When | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Tithi | Shukla Dwitiyai from previous day 11:52 until 08:20 | then Shukla Thritiyai until next day 05:09 |
| Nakshatra | Magha until 11:37 | then Purva Phalguni until next day 09:20 |
| Rahu kaal | 12:15 to 13:50 (1 h 35 min) | the eighth of the daylight left alone for a beginning |
| Yamaganda | 07:30 to 09:05 (1 h 35 min) | the eighth ruled by Yama, also avoided |
| Gulika | 10:40 to 12:15 (1 h 35 min) | the eighth of Saturn’s son; what is done in it is said to repeat |
| Abhijit | 11:50 to 12:40 (0 h 51 min) | the midday muhurta, not counted on a Wednesday |
| Moonrise | 07:37 | moonset 20:13 |
For Wednesday, 4 August 2027 at Chennai. A time marked "previous day" or "next day" is on the clock of that day.
The fast
A fast through the day, broken in the evening after the Parvati puja. Ghewar is the sweet of the day.
What is avoided
Those who fast eat nothing until the evening puja, and a married woman does not keep the day without her suhag, the bangles and the sindoor. White and black clothes are avoided, and quarrels in the house are held to spoil the vrat.
The name
The same day, in every language that has a word for it
Where the regions differ
Rajasthan's Jaipur takes the idol of Parvati through the city; the Kajari and Hartalika teejes follow in the next month on the same instinct. The south keeps no teej.
In other regions
- North India (the dates above)
- Rajasthan keeps it most grandly, with the Teej Mata procession out of Jaipur's City Palace, and Haryana and western Uttar Pradesh keep the sindhara and the swings; Vrindavan puts Banke Bihari on his golden swing.
- Punjab
- The Punjab keeps the same Tritiya as the opening of Teeyan, a month of giddha, swings and boliyan with little puja and no fixed fast.
The dates above are the North India 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.
Greeting
What is said to family and friends on the day
हरियाली तीज की हार्दिक शुभकामनाएंHariyali Teej ki hardik shubhkamnayein
Where this day is kept
Nearest first from Chennai, with what is recorded about each.
Temples of Parvati and Shiva near you
Not recorded for this day in particular: the nearest temples of the day's own gods, for a reader whose own temple is not listed above.
- Chennai, Tamil Nadu · Kapaleeswarar and Karpagambal, with the peacock shrine
- Chennai, Tamil Nadu · Adipureeswarar and Vadivudai Amman with Thyagaraja
- Chennai, Tamil Nadu · Masilamaniswarar with Kodiyidai Nayaki
- Chennai, Tamil Nadu · Adi Kamakshi and Kamakshi, standing on the pancha agni penance
Your family's own temple comes first, and its calendar is the one that decides.
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A temple is listed here only where the gazetteer's own line names this day, or where this day's own entry names the town, or where the day belongs to the ancestors or the nagas and the temple is recorded for that rite. Where neither table says anything, nothing is listed as kept for the day; where fewer than three are, the nearest temples of the day's own gods are added under a heading of their own.
Mantras
The prayers said with the day. Each opens with its words and meaning.
Every date here is computed from the Sun and Moon for the place entered, by the rule printed beside it.
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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.