Kailpodh · Kail Muhurtha Festival Kail is the weapon and podh is the festival, and the day is about the gun.

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Kailpodh · Kail Muhurtha

ಕೋಡವ

ಕೈಲ್ ಪೋಳ್ದ್

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1. Friday, 3 September 2027
2. Sunday, 3 September 2028
3. Monday, 3 September 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.

Kail is the weapon and podh is the festival, and the day is about the gun. The transplanting is over, the crop is standing and has to be guarded from the boar and the elephant through the nights ahead, so the arms of the house come out of the kanni kombare, the room at the end of the ain mane where the okka keeps its dead. The guns, the odikathi and the peechekathi are cleaned, hung with flowers and set out in the hall with the tools of the field, and the senior man of the okka offers rice, milk and a lamp before them, with no priest, no fire and no mantra in it. The karana of the okka are given their share of the meat and the drink before any living person is served. The men then go to the village mand and shoot at a coconut set on a bamboo pole, okka against okka, and the afternoon finishes with pandi curry and kadambuttu.

Deity

Igguthappa, the karana of the okka

Kind

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

3 September, the same date every year, with the household rite in the morning and the shooting at the village mand in the afternoon.

Sunrise 05:58, sunset 18:19, 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.

No fast is kept. Pork cooked dark with kachampuli and the steamed kadambuttu are the meal, and the karana of the okka are given their share of the meat and the drink before anyone in the house is served.

Nobody else on this calendar keeps it. The nearest thing to it is the Tulu Pattanaje, which also turns on a working season rather than on a tithi and also belongs to one district and to no other.

The dates above are the Kodagu 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.