Puthari · Huthari Festival The new rice festival, and the largest day of the Kodava year.

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Puthari · Huthari

ಕೋಡವ

ಪುತ್ತರಿ

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. Tuesday, 24 November 2026
2. Monday, 13 December 2027
3. Saturday, 2 December 2028

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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 new rice festival, and the largest day of the Kodava year. The okka gathers at the ain mane, a gun is fired at the field and at the house to open the rite, and at a muhurtham after dark the symbolic sheaf is cut; the cut ears, the kadir, are carried in with the cry of Poli Poli Deva and tied to the central pillar, to the doorways and in the kitchen. Thambuttu, of ripe banana, rice flour, jaggery, sesame and ghee, is the dish of the night, and the karana of the okka are given their share before the house eats. The village keeps the Puthari namme at the mand on the nights after, with the kolaat danced by the men and the ummathat by the women. Puth is new and ari is rice, and the whole day is the first handling of the year’s crop.

Deity

Igguthappa, Kaveri, the karana of the okka

Kind

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

The Purnima falling on a day the sidereal Sun stands in Vrischika, which is Birchyar, the Kodava month of the harvest, so it lands between about 17 November and 16 December. The kadir is cut at a muhurtham after dark and that hour is set locally.

This day carries no instant that can be put on a clock: it is fixed by the tithi or the nakshatra running at sunrise, or by a moonrise the app does not compute. The rule above is the whole of it.

No fast is kept. Thambuttu is the dish of the night, with pork and kadambuttu at the meal, and the karana of the okka take their share of both before anyone in the house is served.

Kodagu alone keeps it, and the Kodava associations of Bengaluru and Mysuru hold it for the families who cannot get home. Tulu Nadu has a new rice rite of its own that is cognate with it, and Kerala, Tamil Nadu and Assam each keep a harvest day on a different reckoning.

The dates above are the Kodagu 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.

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.