Sankatahara Chaturthi Vratam The fourth day of the dark fortnight, kept monthly for Ganesha as the remover of sankata, trouble.
The name
The same day, written in each of the six scripts this app keeps
- English
- Sankatahara Chaturthi
- தமிழ்
- சங்கடஹர சதுர்த்தி
- తెలుగు
- సంకష్టహర చతుర్థి
- ಕನ್ನಡ
- ಸಂಕಷ್ಟಹರ ಚತುರ್ಥಿ
- മലയാളം
- സങ്കടഹര ചതുർഥി
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 fourth day of the dark fortnight, kept monthly for Ganesha as the remover of sankata, trouble. The fast runs through the day and is broken only when the moon has been seen and offered water; the twenty-one durva grass and the modakam are given at the evening puja. Falling on a Tuesday it is Angaraka Chaturthi, the one held highest.
- Deity
- Ganesha
- Kind
- Vratam Days kept by a fast or a vow, most of them coming round every lunar month.
The hour
The rule in words
The Chaturthi running at MOONRISE, which is the instant the fast is broken at and is computed for the place rather than taken as the sunset; the puja is in the evening and the moon comes up two to three hours after sunset on this tithi.
The fast
A single meal after the moonrise, in the strict form nothing at all until then. Modakam, kozhukattai and coconut are offered.
Where the regions differ
The north calls the same day Sankashti Chaturthi and Angarki when it falls on a Tuesday; Maharashtra keeps it with the largest crowds. The bright-fortnight Chaturthi is a different, gentler 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.