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Bhai Teeka (Nepali: भाइटीका) in Nepal, where it is the most important festival after Dashain (Vijaya Dashmi / Dussehra). Observed on the fifth day of Tihar festival, it is widely celebrated by Maithils in Nepal as Bhardutiya Bhai Tika followed by the people of various other ethnic groups among Madhesis.
The astronomical basis of the Hindu lunar day. In Vedic timekeeping, a tithi is a "duration of two faces of moon that is observed from earth", known as milа̄lyа̄ (Newar: 𑐩𑐶𑐮𑐵𑐮𑑂𑐫𑐵𑑅, मिलाल्याः) in Nepal Bhasa, [1] or the time it takes for the longitudinal angle between the Moon and the Sun to increase by 12°.
It is celebrated every year on the fifth day of the Indian month Magha (January–February), the first day of spring. Traditionally during this festival children are taught to write their first words; Brahmins are fed; ancestor veneration ( Pitr - tarpana ) is performed; the god of love Kamadeva is worshipped; and most educational institutions ...
Indian calendars use 30 lunar phases, called tithi in India. [1] [2] The dark moon tithi is when the Moon is within 12 degrees of the angular distance between the Sun and Moon before conjunction . [3] The New Moon tithi (called Pratipada or Prathama) is the 12 angular degrees after syzygy. Amāvásyā is often translated as new moon since there ...
A tithi corresponds to the concept of a lunar day. Tithi have Sanskrit numbers according by their position in the pakṣa, i.e. prathama (first), dvitīya (second) etc. The fifteenth, that is, the last tithi of a kṛṣṇa pakṣa is called amāvāsya (new moon) and the fifteenth tithi of a śukla pakṣa is called pūrṇimā (full moon). [7]
Each arc measures one lunar day, called a tithi. The time it takes the moon to traverse a particular distance is the length of that lunar day. Ekadashi refers to the 11th tithi, or lunar day. The eleventh tithi corresponds to a precise angle and phase of the waxing and waning moon. In the bright half of the lunar month, the moon will be exactly ...
3rd Prahara of the Day (Aparaahnam): 9am up to 12pm: Used for performing Apara Karmas based on the tithi of the day at Aparahnam. This time is also called Do-Pehar in Hindi and similarly in some other Indian languages because colloquially this time is considered the 2nd Prahara while Praat: Kaala is colloquially considered the 1st Prahara.
Dvitiya. Dvitiya (Sanskrit: द्वितीय, romanized: Dvitīya) also referred to as Beej (Sanskrit: बीज, romanized: Bīja) and Dooj (Sanskrit: दुजा, romanized: Dujā) is the Sanskrit word for "second", [1] and is the second day of the lunar fortnight of the Hindu calendar.