Ramdevra Mela · Baba ri Beej Festival The opening day of the Bhadva mela at Ramdevra, which was Runicha, in Jaisalmer district.

English

Ramdevra Mela · Baba ri Beej

हिन्दी

रामदेवरा मेला

राजस्थानी

बाबा री बीज · रामदेवरा मेला

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1. Thursday, 2 September 2027
2. Tuesday, 22 August 2028
3. Monday, 10 September 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 opening day of the Bhadva mela at Ramdevra, which was Runicha, in Jaisalmer district. Baba Ramdev was a Tanwar Rajput of the fifteenth century who is held to be an incarnation of Vishnu, who ate with the Meghwal households of the desert when nobody else would, and who took a living samadhi at Runicha on the Shukla Ekadashi after announcing the fair himself. Walkers come for days across the Marwar sand carrying the neja, the flag that is planted at the samadhi, and the Kamad women dance the terah tali with manjiras tied to their limbs through the nights of it.

Deity

Baba Ramdev, Vishnu

Kind

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

Bhadrapada Shukla Dwitiya at sunrise, the Beej, which opens the fair; it runs from here to the Shukla Ekadashi, the day of the samadhi.

Sunrise 05:58, sunset 18:19, 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. The bhandaras along the padyatra roads feed the walkers, and the offering at the shrine is a coconut and sweets.

Rajasthan keeps Ramdevra as one of its two great pilgrimages; Gujarat and Sindh keep the same saint as Ramapir or Ramsha Pir and the Gujarati Ramdevpir temples send their own jatheras, and Muslim households of western Rajasthan keep him with the Hindu ones. The Dwitiya of every bright fortnight is his day at the shrine and not only this one.

The dates above are the Rajasthan 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.

Yatra, setting out on a journey. The classical rule is by direction: Sukra and the Yogini of the day sit in the direction not to be travelled, and a disagreeable direction is answered with a token journey a day earlier. That is not computed here. The weekday folklore differs from place to place, so only Sevvai and Sani are marked weak. The windows below are the daylight stretches with a movable or dual sign rising, outside Rahu kaal, Yamaganda and Gulika kaal.

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