Uthradam · First Onam Observance The eve of Thiruvonam, when Mahabali is held to arrive.
The name
The same day, written in each of the six scripts this app keeps
- English
- Uthradam · First Onam
- മലയാളം
- ഉത്രാടം · ഒന്നാം ഓണം
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 eve of Thiruvonam, when Mahabali is held to arrive. It is the busiest shopping day of the Kerala year, the Uthradappachil, when the vegetables and the plantain leaves for the next day's sadya are bought and the pookkalam reaches its largest ring.
- Deity
- Mahabali, Vamana
- Kind
- Observance Days marked, watched or begun, without a fast or a feast of their own.
The hour
The rule in words
Uthradam nakshatra, the day before Thiruvonam in Chingam; the cooking and the buying take up the day.
The fast
No fast. The first small sadya of the season is often eaten on this day.
Where the regions differ
Kerala only; the neighbouring Tamil districts that keep Onam follow the same two days.
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.