Sajibu Cheiraoba Festival The Meitei new year, and the day the Manipuri calendar turns.
Sajibu Cheiraoba 2027 falls on Wednesday, 7 April, computed for Chennai.
The name
The same day, in every language that has a word for it
- English
- Sajibu Cheiraoba
- মৈতৈলোন্
- সজিবু চৈরাওবা
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.
Asia/Kolkata · UTC+5:30
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
Manipur calendar, computed for Chennai
- Wednesday, 7 April 2027
- Monday, 27 March 2028
- Saturday, 14 April 2029
Where Sajibu Cheiraoba falls on the solar year, and how far the date moves between occurrences.
- 2027: 7 Apr
- 2028: 27 Mar
- 2029: 14 Apr
The dates, year by year
Manipur calendar, computed for Chennai
| Year | Sajibu Cheiraoba |
|---|---|
| 2025 | Sunday, 30 March 2025 |
| 2026 | Thursday, 19 March 2026 |
| 2027 | Wednesday, 7 April 2027 |
| 2028 | Monday, 27 March 2028 |
| 2029 | Saturday, 14 April 2029 |
| 2030 | Wednesday, 3 April 2030 |
| 2031 | Monday, 24 March 2031 |
| 2032 | Sunday, 11 April 2032 |
| 2033 | Thursday, 31 March 2033 |
| 2034 | Tuesday, 21 March 2034 |
| 2035 | Monday, 9 April 2035 |
| 2036 | Friday, 28 March 2036 |
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.
What the day is
The Meitei new year, and the day the Manipuri calendar turns. The house is cleaned to the corners the day before; the new year’s meal is cooked by the senior woman of the house and offered first at the south-west corner to Lainingthou Sanamahi, the household deity who was there before the Vaishnava gods and is there still. In the evening every family climbs the nearest hill, so that the year ahead will rise as they have risen.
- Deity
- Lainingthou Sanamahi, Leimarel Sidabi, Krishna
- Kind
- Festival Days of celebration: the house is decorated, a feast is cooked and the temple is visited.
The hour
Clock times for Wednesday, 7 April 2027 at Chennai
Sajibu Shukla Pratipada at sunrise, which is the same new moon Ugadi and Gudi Padwa open on; when the tithi begins and ends between two sunrises the day it ran on is taken.
| Instant | Time | What it is |
|---|---|---|
| Sunrise | 06:02 | the udaya tithi, the tithi running as the sun comes up |
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.
The fast
No fast. The meal is the point of the day: a vegetarian feast laid on plantain leaf, with the first share set aside for the deity and the second for the neighbours.
Where the regions differ
The Deccan keeps the same morning as Ugadi and Maharashtra as Gudi Padwa, so three new years fall on one new moon; what Manipur adds is the hill climb at dusk, which nobody else does.
The dates above are the Manipur 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.