Vasant Panchami 2028 in Maclear, Eastern Cape, South Africa Saraswati Puja muhurat 05:31–12:19, Mon 31 Jan
Festival · times in SAST
When is Vasant Panchami 2028 in Maclear?
Vasant Panchami Saraswati Puja muhurat: what time?
Why is Vasant Panchami on Mon 31 Jan in Maclear?
Vasant Panchami is on Mon 31 Jan: Panchami holds all of purvahna that morning.
Panchami holds all of purvahna, 05:31–12:19. Panchami: 03:45 to 05:58 Tue.
Panchami holds purvahna only until 05:58; then Shashthi. Panchami: 03:45 Mon to 05:58.
One row per day, on one clock (UTC+2). Band: the tithi. Box: Purvahna. Light strip: day; dark strip: night. Sun: sunrise.
Saraswati Puja is done in purvahna, the first half of the day. Panchami began at 03:45 on Mon 31 Jan, before that morning’s purvahna, and ended at 05:58 on Tue 1 Feb, partway into the next. The Nirnayasindhu takes the morning Panchami fills: Mon 31 Jan. No text giving Vasant Panchami’s time was found; purvahna is Tithika’s convention.
The rule
Magha Shukla Panchami
Saraswati Puja is done in purvahna, the first half of the day.
- Smarta
- the morning whose purvahna Panchami holds: Tithika’s convention, since no text gives the time.
- Vaishnava
- the Smarta day.