Udaya

Annual shraddha Thivasam, the yearly remembrance. It falls on the day the tithi of the death runs again in the lunar month the death fell in — not on the English anniversary, which is why the date moves by ten or eleven days each year.

The place is where the rite is kept, not necessarily where the death happened: the day turns on that place's sunrise and on the hour of its afternoon. When the hour of the death is not known, the tithi is read at sunrise of that date, which is the tithi the day itself carries and the one a wall calendar prints against it.

Enter the date of the death.

Everything is worked out on this device, from the same lunar-month arithmetic the lunar birthday uses. It is not a substitute for the family priest, who settles the hour, the offerings and the invitation; what this page answers is the one question that has to be answered before any of that — which day.