Dhanteras 1976 in Pāthardi, Maharashtra Dhanteras puja muhurat 19:30–20:31, Wed 20 Oct
Maharashtra, India
Festival · times in IST
When is Dhanteras 1976 in Pāthardi?
Wednesday 20 October
Kartika Krishna Trayodashi (purnimanta) · Ashwina Krishna Trayodashi (amanta)
Full panchang for Wed 20 Oct in PāthardiDhanteras puja muhurat: what time?
Dhanteras puja muhurat: pradosha, 18:02–20:31. Within it Vrishabha, a fixed (sthira) lagna, rises in the east from 19:30 to 20:31.
Katha, puja vidhi and fasting rules
The same for every city, on the Dhanteras 1976 page:
Why is Dhanteras on Wed 20 Oct in Pāthardi?
Dhanteras is on Wed 20 Oct: Trayodashi touches pradosha on neither evening, and the earlier day is taken.
Dhanteras puja muhurat: pradosha, 18:02–20:31. Within it Vrishabha, a fixed (sthira) lagna, rises in the east from 19:30 to 20:31.
Pradosha is Dwadashi; Trayodashi begins at 20:49. Trayodashi: 20:49 to 17:46 Thu.
Trayodashi ended at 17:46; pradosha is Chaturdashi. Trayodashi: 20:49 Wed to 17:46.
One row per day, on one clock (IST). Band: the tithi. Box: Pradosha. Light strip: day; dark strip: night.
Dhanteras puja is done in pradosha, the 3 muhurtas after sunset. Trayodashi runs from 20:49 on Wed 20 Oct to 17:46 on Thu 21 Oct, between the two evenings’ pradosha, touching neither. The Nirnayasindhu then takes the earlier day: Wed 20 Oct. No text giving Dhanteras’s time was found; pradosha is Tithika’s convention.
The rule
Kartika Krishna Trayodashi (purnimanta) · Ashwina Krishna Trayodashi (amanta)
Dhanteras puja is done in pradosha, the 3 muhurtas after sunset.
- Smarta
- the evening whose pradosha Trayodashi holds: Tithika’s convention, since no text gives the time.
- Vaishnava
- the Smarta day.