Kojagiri Purnima Festival The full moon of Ashwin, the brightest of the year, on which Lakshmi is held to walk the night asking ko jagarti, who is awake.
The name
The same day, written in each of the six scripts this app keeps
- English
- Kojagiri Purnima
- हिन्दी
- कोजागरी पूर्णिमा
- मराठी
- कोजागिरी पौर्णिमा
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.
UTC+5:30
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
Looking for the calendar this day belongs to
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 Ashwin, the brightest of the year, on which Lakshmi is held to walk the night asking ko jagarti, who is awake. Milk is boiled down with saffron, cardamom and dry fruit, set out in the moonlight and drunk at midnight while the household stays up playing and singing. The eldest child of the family is given an arati and honoured on the same night.
- Deity
- Lakshmi, Chandra
- Kind
- Festival Days of celebration: the house is decorated, a feast is cooked and the temple is visited.
The hour
The rule in words
Ashwin Pournima running at nishita, true midnight, because the milk stands in the moonlight of that night; this puts it a day before the Pournima that holds the sunrise whenever the full moon begins in the evening.
The fast
No fast is prescribed. Many keep the day light and break it with the masala doodh at midnight.
Where the regions differ
Bengal and Odisha keep the same night as Kojagari Lakshmi Puja with a full puja, the Hindi belt as Sharad Purnima with kheer in the moonlight, Braj as the night of the Maha Raas, and Nepal closes Dashain on it as Kojagrat Purnima.
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.