Narali Purnima Festival The full moon of Shravan on the Konkan coast, when a coconut is given to the sea and the fishing season opens again after the monsoon.
The name
The same day, written in each of the six scripts this app keeps
- English
- Narali Purnima
- हिन्दी
- नारली पूर्णिमा
- मराठी
- नारळी पौर्णिमा · रक्षाबंधन
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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
The full moon of Shravan on the Konkan coast, when a coconut is given to the sea and the fishing season opens again after the monsoon. The boats are repainted and garlanded, the first coconut is thrown into the water with a prayer to Varuna for a quiet sea and a full net, and narali bhat, a sweet rice of coconut and jaggery, is cooked at home. The rakhi is tied on the same day.
- Deity
- Varuna, Samudra
- Kind
- Festival Days of celebration: the house is decorated, a feast is cooked and the temple is visited.
The hour
The rule in words
Shravan Pournima at sunrise; the coconut is offered at the shore in the morning, when the tide serves.
The fast
No fast is kept. Narali bhat and the coconut sweets of the season are the food of the day.
Where the regions differ
The koli villages of the Konkan and of Mumbai keep the sea offering, and coastal Andhra keeps the same full moon the same way; inland Maharashtra keeps it only as Raksha Bandhan. The Upakarma of the southern and Deccan households falls on this full moon too.
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.