Navreh · Kashmiri New Year Festival The Kashmiri new year, the first day of the bright fortnight of Chaitra, and the day the Saptarshi era turns.

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Navreh · Kashmiri New Year

कॉशुर

नवरेह

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.

1. Wednesday, 7 April 2027
2. Monday, 27 March 2028
3. Friday, 16 March 2029

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Worked out for Chennai, Lahiri ayanamsa. A date is a function of the place: set yours above and the next three come back for where you are.

The Kashmiri new year, the first day of the bright fortnight of Chaitra, and the day the Saptarshi era turns. The night before, a thaal is filled with raw rice, a walnut, bread, curd, a flower, a coin, a pen, a mirror and the new jantri, and it is set where the household will look at it before anything else in the morning. What is seen first is held to set the year, which is why the thaal carries food, money, learning and a face. The day opens the Navratra, and families go to Hari Parbat in Srinagar or to the Sharika shrine wherever they now live.

Deity

Sharika, Ragnya, Surya

Kind

Festival Days of celebration: the house is decorated, a feast is cooked and the temple is visited.

Chaitra Shukla Pratipada at sunrise, the same instant as Ugadi and Gudi Padwa. Because the Kashmiri month is purnimanta, the year turns in the middle of Chaitra and not at its beginning.

Sunrise 06:02, sunset 18:21, UTC+5.5. These are the instants the rule is read at, not the temple's own puja times, which every temple prints for itself.

No fast is kept. The thaal is eaten after it has been looked at, and the day's meal is a feast with the Kashmiri haak and the nadru of the season.

Kashmiri Pandits keep it wherever they live, in the valley and in Jammu and Delhi; the same instant is Ugadi in Andhra, Gudi Padwa in Maharashtra and the Chaitra Navratri of the north.

The dates above are the Kashmir reckoning, because that is the calendar this key belongs to. Switch the tradition on the calendar page to see how another one dates the same day.

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.

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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.