Tulā Saṅkrānti
The Sun enters Tulā
Friday, 20 October 2276
The Sun crosses at 9:47 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
Sacred to Śiva
Friday, 20 October 2276
From the pañchāṅga
The Trayodaśī twilight sacred to Śiva. The hour and a half around sunset, the pradoṣa-kāla, is kept for his worship; the fast is broken after.
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, his most auspicious window. It takes a special name from its weekday (Soma, Bhauma, Śani Pradoṣa).
Breaking the fast, Broken after the pradoṣa-kāla (sunset) worship.
Celestial Coordinates & Muhūrtas
10:35 AM – 12:04 PM
3:01 PM – 4:29 PM
11:40 AM – 12:28 PM
Bearings indicate horizon degrees. Rāhu and Yamagaṇḍa are avoided for new auspicious beginnings; Abhijit is the midday victory window.
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