Dhanteras 2025 in Lib, Lib Island, Marshall Islands Dhanteras puja muhurat 20:18–20:58, Sat 18 Oct
Festival · times in UTC+12
When is Dhanteras 2025 in Lib?
Saturday 18 October
Kartika Krishna Trayodashi (purnimanta) · Ashwina Krishna Trayodashi (amanta)
Full panchang for Sat 18 Oct in LibDhanteras puja muhurat: what time?
Dhanteras puja muhurat: pradosha, 18:33–20:58. Within it Vrishabha, a fixed (sthira) lagna, rises in the east from 20:18 to 20:58.
Katha, puja vidhi and fasting rules
The same for every city, on the Dhanteras 2025 page:
Why is Dhanteras on Sat 18 Oct in Lib?
Dhanteras is on Sat 18 Oct: Trayodashi holds more of pradosha that evening than on Sun 19 Oct.
Dhanteras puja muhurat: pradosha, 18:33–20:58. Within it Vrishabha, a fixed (sthira) lagna, rises in the east from 20:18 to 20:58.
Dwadashi until 18:49, inside pradosha; then Trayodashi. Trayodashi: 18:49 to 20:22 Sun.
Trayodashi holds pradosha only until 20:22; then Chaturdashi. Trayodashi: 18:49 Sat to 20:22.
One row per day, on one clock (UTC+12). 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 18:49 on Sat 18 Oct to 20:22 on Sun 19 Oct, touching pradosha on both evenings. The Nirnayasindhu takes the evening it holds more of: Sat 18 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.