Keddasa · Suruta Keddasa Festival The days in which Bhumi Appe, the mother earth, is held to be in her courses, and nothing may be done to the ground.

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Keddasa · Suruta Keddasa

ತುಳು

ಕೆಡ್ಡಸ

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.

1. Wednesday, 10 February 2027
2. Thursday, 10 February 2028
3. Saturday, 10 February 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.

The days in which Bhumi Appe, the mother earth, is held to be in her courses, and nothing may be done to the ground. No one digs, ploughs, cuts or breaks the earth for three days, and in Brahmin houses for four, because she is resting and must not be disturbed. The earth is treated as a woman of the house would be: bathed, dressed, given the food of the season, and left alone. The days are called Suruta, Nadu and Kadeta Keddasa, the first, the middle and the last, and the wind that turns the cold of Ponni into the warmth of Maayi is called the Keddasa wind.

Deity

Bhumi Appe, Naga

Kind

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

From Ponni 27 to the last day of Ponni, which is the Sankramana day of Kumbha: three days when Ponni has twenty nine, four when it has thirty. The first day falls on 10 February in most years.

This day carries no instant that can be put on a clock: it is fixed by the tithi or the nakshatra running at sunrise, or by a moonrise the app does not compute. The rule above is the whole of it.

No fast is kept. The nendrabale banana, the bende and the bitter greens are cooked, and in many houses the chicken or fish of the first day is the only meat of the three.

Tulu Nadu alone keeps it, with the Bhuta and the Naga shrines closed to digging as well; the nearest thing elsewhere is the Ambubachi of Kamakhya in Assam, which is the same idea at a different season.

The dates above are the Tulu Nadu 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.

• Srikalahasti Temple 97 km
  Tirupati district, Andhra Pradesh

  This day is kept for Naga, and the gazetteer keeps this temple for Sarpa and Kala sarpa. Vayu, air, and the classic kshetram for Rahu-Ketu and Sarpa dosha nivarana pooja, booked for the same morning.

• Keezhperumpallam Naganathaswamy Temple 216 km
  Mayiladuthurai, Tamil Nadu

  This day is kept for Naga, and the gazetteer keeps this temple for Sarpa and Kala sarpa. The Ketu sthalam, near Poompuhar, where Ketu worships Sivan with a serpent body and a human face.

• Paampuranathar Temple, Thirupampuram 246 km
  Thiruvarur, Tamil Nadu

  This day is kept for Naga, and the gazetteer keeps this temple for Sarpa and Kala sarpa. The delta sthalam where Rahu and Ketu are given human faces and worshipped together, and the serpents are said to have been freed of a curse.

• Thirunageswaram Naganathaswamy Temple 251 km
  Thanjavur, Tamil Nadu

  This day is kept for Naga, and the gazetteer keeps this temple for Sarpa and Kala sarpa. visited for Kala sarpa, Naga dosham and delayed marriage.

• Ghati Subramanya Temple 308 km
  Bengaluru Rural, Karnataka

  This day is kept for Naga, and the gazetteer keeps this temple for Sarpa and Kala sarpa. Bengaluru’s Sarpa dosha temple, where Subramanya faces east and Narasimha west in the same idol.

• Sri Subrahmanyeswara Swamy Temple, Mopidevi 339 km
  Krishna, Andhra Pradesh

  This day is kept for Naga, and the gazetteer keeps this temple for Sarpa and Kala sarpa. The Sarpa dosha kshetram of coastal Andhra, where the Lord is said to have come out of an anthill in a field.

11 more temples in this gazetteer are recorded for the day. Find temples near you.

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. Your family's own temple comes first, and its calendar is the one that decides.

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.