Kaanum Pongal Festival Thai 3, the day of visiting: the family goes to the seashore, the river or a park with the leftovers of the feast, and married daughters come home.
The name
The same day, written in each of the six scripts this app keeps
- English
- Kaanum Pongal
- தமிழ்
- காணும் பொங்கல்
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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What the day is
Thai 3, the day of visiting: the family goes to the seashore, the river or a park with the leftovers of the feast, and married daughters come home. Sisters put out coloured rice on a turmeric leaf and pray for their brothers' well-being, which is the Tamil form of the brother and sister day the rest of India keeps after Deepavali.
- Deity
- Surya
- Kind
- Festival Days of celebration: the house is decorated, a feast is cooked and the temple is visited.
The hour
The rule in words
The whole daylight of Thai 3; there is no puja hour to keep.
The fast
No fast. The cooked rice of the previous days is eaten cold, and nothing new is cooked in some households.
Where the regions differ
A Tamil day. The Telugu country has already kept Kanuma the day before, and the north keeps its brother and sister day as Bhai Dooj after Diwali.
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.