Vishwakarma Puja Festival The day of Vishwakarma, the architect and engineer of the gods, kept in every workshop, factory, garage and studio in Bengal.
The name
The same day, written in each of the six scripts this app keeps
- English
- Vishwakarma Puja
- हिन्दी
- विश्वकर्मा पूजा
- বাংলা
- বিশ্বকর্মা পূজা
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 day of Vishwakarma, the architect and engineer of the gods, kept in every workshop, factory, garage and studio in Bengal. The machines and the tools are washed, marked with sindur, garlanded and left alone for the day, an image of the deity on his elephant is installed at the gate, and the workers are fed khichuri; kites go up over Kolkata and Howrah all afternoon. It is the one Bengali festival fixed by the Sun rather than the Moon, so it barely moves from the seventeenth of September.
- Deity
- Vishwakarma
- Kind
- Festival Days of celebration: the house is decorated, a feast is cooked and the temple is visited.
The hour
The rule in words
The Kanya sankranti day, the last day of Bhadro; the puja is in the morning and the kites fly in the afternoon.
The fast
No fast is kept. Khichuri, labra and beguni are cooked at the workshop and eaten by everyone there.
Where the regions differ
Bengal, Odisha, Jharkhand, Assam and Tripura keep the Kanya sankranti; other parts of India keep Vishwakarma on other days, and the south keeps the same instinct at the Ayudha Puja of Navaratri.
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.