Teeyan · Teej Festival The Punjabi Teej, which opens on the third day of the bright fortnight of Sawan and runs through the rest of the month.
The name
The same day, written in each of the six scripts this app keeps
- English
- Teeyan · Teej
- हिन्दी
- तीयां
- ਪੰਜਾਬੀ
- ਤੀਆਂ · ਹਰਿਆਲੀ ਤੀਜ
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 Punjabi Teej, which opens on the third day of the bright fortnight of Sawan and runs through the rest of the month. Daughters are called home from the husband's house for it, swings go up in the trees, and the giddha is danced in a ring by the women with the boliyan sung at each other, some of them sharp about husbands and mothers-in-law. Mehndi and new glass bangles belong to the day, and pooda and gulgule are fried.
- Deity
- Parvati, Shiva
- Kind
- Festival Days of celebration: the house is decorated, a feast is cooked and the temple is visited.
The hour
The rule in words
Sawan shukla Tritiya at sunrise; the swinging and the giddha run through the evenings of the month that follows.
The fast
No fast is prescribed in the Punjabi form of the day. Some women keep the Parvati vrat of the tithi and eat after the evening puja.
Where the regions differ
The Punjab keeps Teeyan as a women's and girls' festival with very little puja in it; Rajasthan, Haryana and western Uttar Pradesh keep the same day as Hariyali Teej for Parvati with a fast, and Nepal keeps its Teej in Bhadra a month later.
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.