Kartik Purnima · Dev Deepawali Festival The full moon of Kartika, the last day of the purnimanta Kartika month and the end of the month of lamps.
The name
The same day, written in each of the six scripts this app keeps
- English
- Kartik Purnima · Dev Deepawali
- हिन्दी
- कार्तिक पूर्णिमा · देव दीपावली
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 full moon of Kartika, the last day of the purnimanta Kartika month and the end of the month of lamps. Varanasi lights every step of every ghat that evening as Dev Deepawali, when the gods are held to come down to bathe; it is also Guru Nanak Jayanti for the Sikhs, and the day Shiva killed Tripurasura, which gives it the name Tripuri Purnima.
- Deity
- Shiva, Vishnu, Kartikeya, Guru Nanak
- Kind
- Festival Days of celebration: the house is decorated, a feast is cooked and the temple is visited.
The hour
The rule in words
Kartika Purnima at sunrise; the lamps are lit at dusk, and the bath is at dawn.
The fast
Many keep the day without grain and break the fast after the evening lamp. A lamp floated on water and a bath in a river are the observances.
Where the regions differ
Varanasi's Dev Deepawali, Pushkar's fair, the Sikh Gurpurab and the Jain Kartik Purnima yatra to Shatrunjaya all fall on this one full moon. The Telugu country keeps it as Kartika Pournami with the 365-wick lamps.
Fixing a day for it
The muhurtham rules that go with this festival
The Satyanarayana vratam and katha at home. Pournami is the day of the vratam and Ekadasi the next best; Kartika Pournami, Vaishakha Pournami and the Sankranti days are the ones most families choose. Thursday, the day of Guru, comes first among the weekdays, and Tuesday is the one usually passed over. The puja is done in the evening and the prasadam shared after the katha, so no lagna window is computed here.
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.