Thrissur Pooram Festival The pooram of the Vadakkunnathan temple at Thrissur, the largest temple festival of Kerala.
The name
The same day, written in each of the six scripts this app keeps
- English
- Thrissur Pooram
- മലയാളം
- തൃശൂർ പൂരം
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 pooram of the Vadakkunnathan temple at Thrissur, the largest temple festival of Kerala. Ten caparisoned elephants face ten more across the Thekkinkadu maidan while the kudamattam, the exchange of silk parasols, goes on above them, with the panchavadyam and the melam played by hundreds of drummers; the fireworks run through the night into the morning.
- Deity
- Vadakkunnathan, Shiva, Bhagavathi
- Kind
- Festival Days of celebration: the house is decorated, a feast is cooked and the temple is visited.
The hour
The rule in words
Pooram nakshatra in Medam, read at sunset because the festival runs through the afternoon and the night. Where the star comes twice in the month the day nearer the Pournami is taken.
The fast
No fast. The day is a public festival, and the temple gives out payasam.
Where the regions differ
A Thrissur festival above all; the other Kerala poorams (Arattupuzha, Peruvanam) fall in the same season on their own stars. Nothing outside Kerala corresponds to it.
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.