Poosam · Pushya Observance Pushya nakshatra, the most auspicious star of the twenty-seven for a purchase or a beginning, and the star of Guru and of Murugan.
The name
The same day, written in each of the six scripts this app keeps
- English
- Poosam · Pushya
- தமிழ்
- பூசம்
- മലയാളം
- പൂയം
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
Pushya nakshatra, the most auspicious star of the twenty-seven for a purchase or a beginning, and the star of Guru and of Murugan. Falling on a Thursday it is Guru Pushya and on a Sunday Ravi Pushya, and those two days are the ones on which gold, a vehicle or a new business is bought without looking any further.
- Deity
- Murugan, Guru, Brihaspati
- 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 whole day carries it, and no separate hour is kept.
The fast
No fast. Murugan devotees take a temple visit and offer milk.
Where the regions differ
Tamil Nadu and Kerala mark it monthly; the Thai Poosam of Thai is the great one. The north keeps Guru Pushya and Ravi Pushya as buying days too, and the Deccan calls the star Pushyami.
Fixing a day for it
The muhurtham rules that go with this festival
Buying gold or jewellery. Poosam is the star for buying gold, and Akshaya Tritiya (Vaishakha Shukla Thritiyai) and Dhanteras (Krishna Trayodasi before Deepavali) are the two days the whole country buys on, whatever else the day carries. No lagna rule is applied here, so the day is graded as a whole.
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.