Sri Rama Navami Festival The birth of Rama at noon on Chaitra Shukla Navami, and in the Telugu country above all the day of the Sita Rama Kalyanam at Bhadrachalam, where the marriage of Rama and Sita is performed before a crowd and the talambralu, the pearls of rice, are thrown.
The name
The same day, written in each of the six scripts this app keeps
- English
- Sri Rama Navami
- తెలుగు
- శ్రీరామ నవమి
- ಕನ್ನಡ
- ಶ್ರೀರಾಮ ನವಮಿ
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
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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 birth of Rama at noon on Chaitra Shukla Navami, and in the Telugu country above all the day of the Sita Rama Kalyanam at Bhadrachalam, where the marriage of Rama and Sita is performed before a crowd and the talambralu, the pearls of rice, are thrown. Street pandals give away vadapappu (soaked moong dal) and panakam.
- Deity
- Rama, Sita, Lakshmana, Hanuman
- Kind
- Festival Days of celebration: the house is decorated, a feast is cooked and the temple is visited.
The hour
The rule in words
Madhyahna, midday, is the hour of the birth, and the calendar takes the day on which Navami runs at midday; the kalyanam follows in the afternoon.
The fast
A light fast until the midday puja, broken with panakam, vadapappu and neer majjige.
Where the regions differ
Bhadrachalam is the Telugu centre; Karnataka keeps the day with Rama bhajans and panaka; Tamil Nadu calls it Ramanavami and the north Ram Navami, closing Chaitra Navratri with it.
Fixing a day for it
The muhurtham rules that go with this festival
The Satyanarayana vratam and katha at home. Pournami is the day of the vratam and Ekadasi the next best; Kartika Pournami, Vaishakha Pournami and the Sankranti days are the ones most families choose. Thursday, the day of Guru, comes first among the weekdays, and Tuesday is the one usually passed over. The puja is done in the evening and the prasadam shared after the katha, so no lagna window is computed here.
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.