Thiruvonam · Shravana Observance Shravana nakshatra, the star of Vishnu, kept monthly as a Perumal day.
The name
The same day, written in each of the six scripts this app keeps
- English
- Thiruvonam · Shravana
- தமிழ்
- திருவோணம்
- മലയാളം
- തിരുവോണം
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
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
Shravana nakshatra, the star of Vishnu, kept monthly as a Perumal day. The Vishnu temples keep a special thirumanjanam, and those who cannot fast on Ekadasi often keep this day instead; it is also the birth star of Vishnu's incarnations in the Tamil reckoning and the star of Onam.
- Deity
- Vishnu, Perumal
- Kind
- Observance Days marked, watched or begun, without a fast or a feast of their own.
The hour
The rule in words
The nakshatra running at sunrise; the temple visit and the thirumanjanam are in the morning.
The fast
No fast is required. Those who keep it take one vegetarian meal; tulsi and sweet pongal are offered.
Where the regions differ
Tamil Nadu and Kerala mark it monthly; the Thiruvonam in Chingam is Onam, Kerala's festival of the year. The Deccan keeps the same star as Shravanam without a monthly observance.
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.