Kag Tihar Festival The first of the five days of Tihar, kept for the crow.
The name
The same day, written in each of the six scripts this app keeps
- English
- Kag Tihar
- हिन्दी
- काग तिहार
- नेपाली
- काग तिहार
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 first of the five days of Tihar, kept for the crow. Rice, sweets and a little of whatever is cooked are put out on the roof or on a leaf plate at the door at dawn, and the crow, who is held to be the messenger of Yama, is asked to carry the message away and to keep grief and death from the house. The five days honour a creature or a person in turn, and this is where they begin.
- Deity
- Yama
- Kind
- Festival Days of celebration: the house is decorated, a feast is cooked and the temple is visited.
The hour
The rule in words
Kartik Krishna Trayodashi at sunrise; the offering is put out early in the morning, before the household eats.
The fast
No fast is kept. What is cooked is offered to the crow first and eaten afterwards.
Where the regions differ
Nepal and the Nepali-speaking hills of Darjeeling and Sikkim keep the five days as Tihar or Yamapanchak; the rest of India keeps the same five days as Diwali without the animals. Traditions vary on whether the count begins here or at Dhanteras.
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.