Vivaha Panchami Festival The wedding day of Rama and Sita, kept at Janakpur where the marriage is placed, and the day of the year Mithila fills.

English

Vivaha Panchami

मैथिली

विवाह पंचमी

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.

1. Monday, 14 December 2026
2. Friday, 3 December 2027
3. Tuesday, 21 November 2028

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Worked out for Chennai, Lahiri ayanamsa. A date is a function of the place: set yours above and the next three come back for where you are.

The wedding day of Rama and Sita, kept at Janakpur where the marriage is placed, and the day of the year Mithila fills. A barat comes from Ayodhya, the Janaki Mandir holds the marriage again with the full vidhi, and the Maithil songs of a bride's send off are sung for Sita as they would be for a daughter of the house. The panchang names the day plainly: Vivaha Panchami, the marriage festival of Sita and Rama, with the darshan at Janakpur. Many Maithil families will not hold a daughter's wedding on this tithi, because Sita's married life is held to have been a hard one.

Deity

Rama, Sita

Kind

Festival Days of celebration: the house is decorated, a feast is cooked and the temple is visited.

Agrahayana Shukla Panchami at sunrise, in the month the north calls Margashirsha.

Sunrise 06:22, sunset 17:44, 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.

No fast is kept. The day is a wedding feast, and the laddu, the thekua and the khaja of a Maithil barat are made for it.

Mithila and the Nepal Terai keep it as the great day of Janakpur; Ayodhya, Chitrakoot and the Rama temples of the north keep the same tithi, and the Ramcharitmanas recitation ends on it in many houses.

The dates above are the Mithila 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.

• Kamtanath Temple, Chitrakoot 1,349 km
  Uttar Pradesh

  The entry for this day names Chitrakoot, and it is a temple of Rama. Ayodhya, Chitrakoot and the Rama temples of the north keep the same tithi, and the Ramcharitmanas recitation ends on it in many houses.

• Sri Ram Janmabhoomi Temple, Ayodhya 1,539 km
  Uttar Pradesh

  The entry for this day names Ayodhya, and it is a temple of Rama. A barat comes from Ayodhya, the Janaki Mandir holds the marriage again with the full vidhi, and the Maithil songs of a bride's send off are sung for Sita as they would be for a daughter of the house.

• Janaki Mandir, Janakpur 1,628 km
  Dhanusha, Madhesh, Nepal

  The entry for this day names Janakpur, and it is a temple of Rama. The wedding day of Rama and Sita, kept at Janakpur where the marriage is placed, and the day of the year Mithila fills.

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. Your family's own temple comes first, and its calendar is the one that decides.

Vivaha, the marriage itself. The grading is the Tamil almanac one: nine wedding months, the seven wedding tithis, the marriage stars, and Mithunam, Kanni and Thulam as the best lagnas. Tuesday and Saturday rule a day out, as no Tamil almanac prints a wedding muhurtham on either. Confirm the chosen day and hour with the family astrologer.

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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.