Zyeth Atham · Mela Kheer Bhawani Festival The great mela at the Kheer Bhawani spring at Tulmul, kept on the eighth of the bright fortnight of Jyeshtha.

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Zyeth Atham · Mela Kheer Bhawani

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ज़ेठ अठम

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3. Tuesday, 19 June 2029

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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 great mela at the Kheer Bhawani spring at Tulmul, kept on the eighth of the bright fortnight of Jyeshtha. Kheer is cooked and poured into the spring, and the colour the water takes that day is read for the year ahead: milky white is well, black is not. It is the one day of the Kashmiri year that still brings the exiled community back to the valley in numbers, and the pilgrims come from Jammu and Delhi by road for it. Ragnya Devi, whom the spring belongs to, is the household goddess of a great many Pandit families.

Deity

Ragnya, Kheer Bhawani

Kind

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

Zyeth Shukla Ashtami at sunrise, the eighth of the bright fortnight of the purnimanta Jyeshtha.

Sunrise 05:42, sunset 18:35, 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.

Many keep a day fast and eat only the kheer offered at the spring; no meat is cooked, which in a Kashmiri Pandit house is itself the mark of the day.

Kashmiri Pandits keep it at Tulmul and at the Kheer Bhawani shrines of Jammu, Delhi and Udhampur; no other tradition keeps the day.

The dates above are the Kashmir 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.

• Kheer Bhawani Temple, Tulmul 2,407 km
  Ganderbal, Jammu and Kashmir

  The entry for this day names Tulmul, and it is a temple of Ragnya. The great mela at the Kheer Bhawani spring at Tulmul, kept on the eighth of the bright fortnight of Jyeshtha.

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A temple visit, or the first darshan at a new temple. No weekday is ruled out: Tuesday belongs to Murugan and the Amman, Saturday to Perumal and Sani, so the day usually follows the deity rather than the almanac. Ashtami and Chaturdasi are the two tithis held back for darshan, with the standing exceptions of Sivaratri on Krishna Chaturdasi and Kala Bhairava Ashtami, which are kept on those very days. Rahu kaal, Yamaganda and Gulika kaal are not scored here; the panchangam page prints them for the day you pick, and most families simply wait them out.

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