Sangrand Observance The first day of each month, on which the sangat gathers to hear the Barah Maha, the twelve-month poem of Guru Arjan in Raag Majh and of Guru Nanak in Raag Tukhari, read for the month that is beginning.
The name
The same day, written in each of the six scripts this app keeps
- English
- Sangrand
- हिन्दी
- संगरांद
- ਪੰਜਾਬੀ
- ਸੰਗਰਾਂਦ
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 first day of each month, on which the sangat gathers to hear the Barah Maha, the twelve-month poem of Guru Arjan in Raag Majh and of Guru Nanak in Raag Tukhari, read for the month that is beginning. The verse for the month is read out after the morning diwan and the new month is announced. It is not an auspicious day in the astrological sense, and the Barah Maha was written to say exactly that: the month is good when the mind is turned to the Guru and not otherwise.
- Deity
- Guru Nanak, Guru Arjan
- Kind
- Observance Days marked, watched or begun, without a fast or a feast of their own.
The hour
The rule in words
The first of the month in the fixed Nanakshahi calendar, which falls on the same Gregorian date every year. The Bikrami sangrand, the day the Sun actually enters the sign, can fall a day either side of it.
The fast
No fast is kept. The langar is served after the diwan as on any other day.
Where the regions differ
The Punjab keeps the sangrand at the gurdwara; the solar calendars of Bengal, Assam, Nepal, Kerala and Tamil Nadu turn their months on the same ingress and count the day differently in each. Traditions vary on whether a sangat follows the Nanakshahi date or the Bikrami one.
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.