Dhanteras 2029 Sat 3 Nov
Dhanteras puja muhurat in New Delhi: 18:13–20:09 IST
Festival · the date in New Delhi; each city on its own sunrise and sunset, in its own time
When is Dhanteras 2029?
Dhanteras puja muhurat: what time?
Dhanteras puja muhurat: pradosha, 17:34–20:10. Within it Vrishabha, a fixed (sthira) lagna, rises in the east from 18:13 to 20:09.
Dhanteras puja muhurat in 30 cities
Times in each city’s own zone.
Sat 3 Nov19 cities
India
Gulf
Sun 4 Nov (differs from most cities)11 cities
India
Nepal
South-East Asia
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Dhanteras 2029 by state and country
Each opens Dhanteras 2029 there: the date and each city’s Dhanteras puja muhurat.
States and territories of India
- Andaman and Nicobar
- Andhra Pradesh
- Arunachal Pradesh
- Assam
- Bihar
- Chhattisgarh
- Dadra and Nagar Haveli and Daman and Diu
- Goa
- Gujarat
- Haryana
- Himachal Pradesh
- Jammu and Kashmir
- Jharkhand
- Karnataka
- Kerala
- Ladakh
- Lakshadweep
- Madhya Pradesh
- Maharashtra
- Manipur
- Meghalaya
- Mizoram
- Nagaland
- Odisha
- Punjab
- Rajasthan
- Sikkim
- Tamil Nadu
- Telangana
- Tripura
- Uttar Pradesh
- Uttarakhand
- West Bengal
Countries
Why is Dhanteras celebrated? The katha
Dhanteras, the thirteenth day of the waning moon, opens the five days of Diwali: homes are cleaned, metal vessels bought or polished, Lakshmi worshipped in the evening, and a lamp lit for Yama.
A story Underhill records tells of King Haima, whose son was born under a prophecy: a snake would bite him on the fourth day after his wedding. To cheat fate the boy was kept in rooms built against snakes on an island in the Yamuna, yet on the fateful day a snake came out of the king's own sneeze, and the boy was bitten and died.
Even Yama's messengers, who came for the boy, were moved, and they asked their lord whether such deaths could be prevented. Yama answered that lamps lit every evening from this thirteenth day until the second day after the new moon would keep a violent death away.
So on Dhanteras evening many households set a lamp outside the door for Yama. Merchants also close their year's accounts and worship their account books and coins with Lakshmi, the giver of wealth.
Sources: M. M. Underhill, The Hindu Religious Year (1921), pp. 59–61
Dhanteras puja vidhi and samagri
On the thirteenth of Kartika's dark half the house and its doorway are cleaned, and new metal vessels are bought or the old ones polished, for the day is named for dhana, wealth. In the evening Lakshmi is worshipped with the coins or the new vessel, and offered roli and rice, flowers, sweets and a ghee lamp; merchants worship their account books with her. A clay lamp is then set outside the door for Yama, for in the story Underhill records Yama says that lamps lit from this evening to the second day after the new moon keep an untimely death from the house.
New Delhi · IST
Sources: P. V. Kane, History of Dharmaśāstra, vol. V, pt. 1 (BORI, 1958), pp. 195–196; M. M. Underhill, The Hindu Religious Year (1921), p. 59
Why is Dhanteras on Sat 3 Nov?
In New Delhi
Dhanteras is on Sat 3 Nov: Trayodashi touches pradosha on neither evening, and the earlier day is taken.
Dhanteras puja muhurat: pradosha, 17:34–20:10. Within it Vrishabha, a fixed (sthira) lagna, rises in the east from 18:13 to 20:09.
Pradosha is Dwadashi; Trayodashi begins at 20:58. Trayodashi: 20:58 to 17:30 Sun.
Trayodashi ended at 17:30; pradosha is Chaturdashi. Trayodashi: 20:58 Sat to 17:30.
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 20:58 on Sat 3 Nov to 17:30 on Sun 4 Nov, between the two evenings’ pradosha, touching neither. The Nirnayasindhu then takes the earlier day: Sat 3 Nov. 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.
Why the cities differ
New Delhi keeps Sat 3 Nov. Kolkata keeps Sun 4 Nov.
Time runs down, the same instant across both columns · each city on its own clock · dashed: tithi changes · filled: what each reading keeps
New Delhi · IST
Dhanteras is on Sat 3 Nov: Trayodashi touches pradosha on neither evening, and the earlier day is taken.
Sat 3 Nov. Pradosha is Dwadashi; Trayodashi begins at 20:58. Trayodashi: 20:58 to 17:30 Sun.
Sun 4 Nov. Trayodashi ended at 17:30; pradosha is Chaturdashi. Trayodashi: 20:58 Sat to 17:30.
Kolkata · IST
Dhanteras is on Sun 4 Nov: Trayodashi touches pradosha that evening, and no other.
Sat 3 Nov. Pradosha is Dwadashi; Trayodashi begins at 20:58. Trayodashi: 20:58 to 17:30 Sun.
Sun 4 Nov. Trayodashi holds pradosha only until 17:30; then Chaturdashi. Trayodashi: 20:58 Sat to 17:30.
Every city’s own page draws its reason.