Rishi Panchami Vratam The fifth day of the bright fortnight of Bhadra, the last of the three days of Teej.
The name
The same day, written in each of the six scripts this app keeps
- English
- Rishi Panchami
- हिन्दी
- ऋषि पंचमी
- नेपाली
- ऋषि पञ्चमी
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 fifth day of the bright fortnight of Bhadra, the last of the three days of Teej. Women bathe before dawn with red mud, cow dung and datiwan twigs in a set order and number of dips, and then worship the sapta rishi, the seven sages, and Arundhati with them, to be free of any fault held to be incurred during menstruation through the year. The fast of Teej is given up after this puja.
- Deity
- Sapta Rishi, Arundhati
- Kind
- Vratam Days kept by a fast or a vow, most of them coming round every lunar month.
The hour
The rule in words
Bhadra Shukla Panchami at sunrise; the bath is before dawn and the puja in the morning.
The fast
The fast is kept until the puja and then broken with a meal of untilled food: karkalo, the taro leaf, and rice that has not been grown behind an ox-drawn plough.
Where the regions differ
Nepal keeps it as the close of Teej; Maharashtra, Gujarat and parts of the Hindi belt keep Rishi Panchami on the same tithi with the same seven sages and a lighter rite. Traditions vary a great deal on how strictly the bath and the food rule are kept, and many families now keep only the puja.
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.