Tulā Saṅkrānti
The Sun enters Tulā
Wednesday, 13 October 1773
The Sun crosses at 11:56 PM, your local time
The Sun enters Tulā (Libra), where day and night stand in balance. Kept as Tulā Saṅkrānti, and as Kati Bihu in Assam, a quieter festival of lamps in the fields and prayers for the ripening crop.
What is done, A bath in sacred water, the Tulā-snāna in the Kāverī is especially honoured, and charity.
Pradoṣa Vrata
Sacred to Śiva
Wednesday, 13 October 1773
From the pañchāṅga
Pradosh Vrat: the Trayodaśī fast sacred to Śiva, kept at the pradoṣa-kāla around sunset, twice each lunar month. Dates, timings, and how it is observed, computed for your location.
How to keep the fast
A fast is kept through the day; Śiva is worshipped in the pradoṣa-kāla, the hour and a half around sunset, when he is said to dance between the horns of the evening.
Breaking the fast, Broken after the pradoṣa-kāla (sunset) worship.
Celestial Coordinates & Muhūrtas
12:29 PM – 1:58 PM
8:02 AM – 9:31 AM
12:05 PM – 12:53 PM
Bearings indicate horizon degrees. Rāhu and Yamagaṇḍa are avoided for new auspicious beginnings; Abhijit is the midday victory window.
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