Vat Purnima Vratam The full moon of Jyeshtha, kept by married women for the long life of the husband, after Savitri, who followed Yama down the road and argued her husband Satyavan back from him under a banyan tree.
The name
The same day, written in each of the six scripts this app keeps
- English
- Vat Purnima
- हिन्दी
- वट पूर्णिमा
- मराठी
- वटपौर्णिमा
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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What the day is
The full moon of Jyeshtha, kept by married women for the long life of the husband, after Savitri, who followed Yama down the road and argued her husband Satyavan back from him under a banyan tree. The banyan is worshipped and wound round with a cotton thread five or seven times while the Savitri katha is read at its foot. Where there is no tree a branch, or a drawing of one, stands in for it.
- Deity
- Savitri, Satyavan, Yama
- Kind
- Vratam Days kept by a fast or a vow, most of them coming round every lunar month.
The hour
The rule in words
Jyeshtha Pournima running at madhyahna, midday, because the thread is wound in the forenoon; this can put the vrat a day before the Pournima that holds the sunrise. Else the Pournima at sunrise.
The fast
A fast through the day, broken after the puja; the strict keep it without water. Mangoes, jackfruit and the first fruit of the season are offered and given away with the haldi kunku.
Where the regions differ
Maharashtra, Gujarat and Goa keep it on the Jyeshtha Pournima; Uttar Pradesh, Bihar and much of the Hindi belt keep the same vow as Vat Savitri on the Jyeshtha Amavasya, a fortnight earlier. Traditions vary on which of the two a family follows, and some keep both.
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.