Latitude, longitude and time zone 13.08, 80.27
Asia/Kolkata · UTC+5:30
The date of a festival depends on the place.
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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
Punjab calendar, computed for Chennai
- Wednesday, 4 August 2027
- Monday, 24 July 2028
- Sunday, 12 August 2029
Where Teeyan · Teej falls on the solar year, and how far the date moves between occurrences.
- 2027: 4 Aug
- 2028: 24 Jul, 10 days earlier
- 2029: 12 Aug, 18 days later
The dates, year by year
Punjab calendar, computed for Chennai
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.
Significance
Teeyan is the daughters' festival: a married girl comes back to her peke, her parents' village, and for these weeks she is a girl again among the friends she grew up with, swinging and dancing out of sight of her in-laws. Her parents send the sandhara to her, new clothes, bangles, mehndi and sweets, as a sign that the house she was born in has not forgotten her. The giddha of Teeyan is the women's own stage, and the boliyan, sung in couplets and answered back, have carried for generations what women could not otherwise say aloud about marriage, work and longing. The rains that break the summer heat make it a festival of relief as well, the green season of the swing, the peacock and the dholki under the trees.
How it is kept
The puja as a household does it, in order. Tick each step as it is done.
Teeyan · Teej: how it is kept
Keep ready
- mehndi
- new glass bangles
- a new suit and a phulkari dupatta
- a paranda for the hair
- a thick rope and a wooden plank for the peengh
- a dholki
- atta, gur and ghee for pooda and gulgule
- milk and rice for kheer
The steps
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What is cooked
Kheer and pooda are the Sawan pair in the Punjab, with gulgule of atta and gur fried in ghee, and the sandhara brings sweets from the halwai. Haryana and Rajasthan send ghevar in the sinjara instead.
The hour
Clock times for Wednesday, 4 August 2027 at Chennai
Sawan shukla Tritiya at sunrise; the swinging and the giddha run through the evenings of the month that follows.
The main rite. Sawan Shukla Tritiya at sunrise; the swings are hung that day, and the giddha and the swinging run through the evenings of the rest of Sawan.
| Instant | Time | What it is |
|---|---|---|
| Sunrise | 05:55 | the udaya tithi, the tithi running as the sun comes up |
Sunrise 05:55, sunset 18:35, 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 day itself
| What | When | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Tithi | Shukla Dwitiyai from previous day 11:52 until 08:20 | then Shukla Thritiyai until next day 05:09 |
| Nakshatra | Magha until 11:37 | then Purva Phalguni until next day 09:20 |
| Rahu kaal | 12:15 to 13:50 (1 h 35 min) | the eighth of the daylight left alone for a beginning |
| Yamaganda | 07:30 to 09:05 (1 h 35 min) | the eighth ruled by Yama, also avoided |
| Gulika | 10:40 to 12:15 (1 h 35 min) | the eighth of Saturn’s son; what is done in it is said to repeat |
| Abhijit | 11:50 to 12:40 (0 h 51 min) | the midday muhurta, not counted on a Wednesday |
| Moonrise | 07:37 | moonset 20:13 |
For Wednesday, 4 August 2027 at Chennai. A time marked "previous day" or "next day" is on the clock of that day.
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.
What is avoided
In the Punjabi custom it is not a fast day, and no girl is made to keep one. Men keep out of the giddha ring, which belongs to the women; they may listen from outside, and many of the boliyan are about them.
The name
The same day, in every language that has a word for it
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.
In other regions
- North India
- Haryana, Rajasthan and western Uttar Pradesh keep the same tithi as Hariyali Teej, with a fast for Parvati, the swings and the sinjara sent by the parents, and the Braj temples put Krishna on the golden swing.
- Punjab (the dates above)
- The Punjab keeps Teeyan in the villages at the tree and the pond, in the colleges and towns as the Teeyan da mela, and across the Punjabi diaspora of Canada, Britain and Australia, where the women hire halls for the giddha.
The dates above are the Punjab 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.
Greeting
What is said to family and friends on the day
ਤੀਆਂ ਦੀਆਂ ਲੱਖ ਲੱਖ ਵਧਾਈਆਂTeeyan diyan lakh lakh vadhaiyan
Where this day is kept
Nearest first from Chennai, with what is recorded about each.
Temples of Parvati and Shiva near you
Not recorded for this day in particular: the nearest temples of the day's own gods, for a reader whose own temple is not listed above.
- Chennai, Tamil Nadu · Kapaleeswarar and Karpagambal, with the peacock shrine
- Chennai, Tamil Nadu · Adipureeswarar and Vadivudai Amman with Thyagaraja
- Chennai, Tamil Nadu · Masilamaniswarar with Kodiyidai Nayaki
- Chennai, Tamil Nadu · Adi Kamakshi and Kamakshi, standing on the pancha agni penance
Your family's own temple comes first, and its calendar is the one that decides.
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A temple is listed here only where the gazetteer's own line names this day, or where this day's own entry names the town, or where the day belongs to the ancestors or the nagas and the temple is recorded for that rite. Where neither table says anything, nothing is listed as kept for the day; where fewer than three are, the nearest temples of the day's own gods are added under a heading of their own.
Mantras
The prayers said with the day. Each opens with its words and meaning.
Every date here is computed from the Sun and Moon for the place entered, by the rule printed beside it.
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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.