Maasi Magam Festival Magam nakshatra in Maasi, when the deities of the coastal temples are taken to the sea or the tank for the theerthavari, the holy bath.
The name
The same day, written in each of the six scripts this app keeps
- English
- Maasi Magam
- தமிழ்
- மாசி மகம்
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
Magam nakshatra in Maasi, when the deities of the coastal temples are taken to the sea or the tank for the theerthavari, the holy bath. Kumbakonam keeps the greatest of them at the Mahamaham tank every twelfth year, when Guru stands in Simha; in the other years the same rite is done in a smaller way at Thiruvarur, Thiruchendur and Mylapore.
- Deity
- Shiva, Vishnu, Amman
- Kind
- Festival Days of celebration: the house is decorated, a feast is cooked and the temple is visited.
The hour
The rule in words
Magam and the Pournami of Maasi together: the Pournami day on which Magam also runs, and failing that the day the star holds the sunrise, the second when the star is the day-star twice in the month (13 February and 12 March in 2025, kept on 12 March). The theerthavari is at the hour the temple announces, often at dawn.
The fast
No fast is prescribed. A bath in the sea or the tank on that day is the observance.
Where the regions differ
A Tamil coastal day; Kerala keeps the Maasi festivals of Attukal and Arattupuzha in the same month, and the north does not mark the star.
Fixing a day for it
The muhurtham rules that go with this festival
A temple visit, or the first darshan at a new temple. No weekday is ruled out: Tuesday belongs to Murugan and the Amman, Saturday to Perumal and Sani, so the day usually follows the deity rather than the almanac. Ashtami and Chaturdasi are the two tithis held back for darshan, with the standing exceptions of Sivaratri on Krishna Chaturdasi and Kala Bhairava Ashtami, which are kept on those very days. Rahu kaal, Yamaganda and Gulika kaal are not scored here; the panchangam page prints them for the day you pick, and most families simply wait them out.
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.