Dhanteras 2016 in Devadurga, Karnataka Dhanteras puja muhurat 19:00–20:23, Thu 27 Oct
Karnataka, India
Festival · times in IST
When is Dhanteras 2016 in Devadurga?
Thursday 27 October
Kartika Krishna Trayodashi (purnimanta) · Ashwina Krishna Trayodashi (amanta)
Full panchang for Thu 27 Oct in DevadurgaDhanteras puja muhurat: what time?
Dhanteras puja muhurat: pradosha, 17:54–20:23. Within it Vrishabha, a fixed (sthira) lagna, rises in the east from 19:00 to 20:23.
Katha, puja vidhi and fasting rules
The same for every city, on the Dhanteras 2016 page:
Why is Dhanteras on Thu 27 Oct in Devadurga?
Dhanteras is on Thu 27 Oct: Trayodashi holds all of pradosha that evening.
Dhanteras puja muhurat: pradosha, 17:54–20:23. Within it Vrishabha, a fixed (sthira) lagna, rises in the east from 19:00 to 20:23.
Trayodashi holds all of pradosha, 17:54–20:23. Trayodashi: 16:15 to 18:20 Fri.
Trayodashi holds pradosha only until 18:20; then Chaturdashi. Trayodashi: 16:15 Thu to 18:20.
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 began at 16:15 on Thu 27 Oct, before that evening’s pradosha, and ended at 18:20 on Fri 28 Oct, partway into the next. The Nirnayasindhu takes the evening Trayodashi fills: Thu 27 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.