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Significance of Tithi in the Hindu Way of Life. Part:2

Continued from the Previous Page… 
Significance of Tithis: - The tithis play very significant role in the cultural life of the Hindus. All the major religious festivals such as Durga Pooja, Depawali, Laxmi pooja, Swaraswati pooja, Kali pooja, Ma Manasha Pooja, Chhat Pooja; Rakshya Bandhan, Ram Nawami, Krishna Janmastami, Rakhi Bandhan, Guru Purnima, etc., are set in accordance with the tithis.  The day(s) of death anniversaries and death related rituals are also fixed on the basis of tithis, not on the basis of date of a Gregorian calendar. Muhurtas (Propitious time segment) are invariably applied for performing important and sacred

family or social functions. A tithi is one of the five attributes for deciding the auspicious muhurta, namely, Bar (the weekday), Nakshyatra (the moon’s asterism), Yoga (the angular relationship between the Moon and the sun), Karana (the half of a tithi), and the tithi per se. Auspicious muhurtas are selected for conducting sacred ceremonies such as marriage, Upanayana (a ritual for taking the first sacred thread), Annaprasanna (the first ceremonial feeding of a cereal meal to a child), and starting an important project, laying the foundation stone of a building, and starting an outbound journey from home etc. For deciding an auspicious or inauspicious day and muhurta the 30 tithis are divided into five categories, namely, Nanda, Bhadra, Jaya, Rickta, and Purna. The division is shown in the table below. Each tithi beginning from the sukla  pratipada is consecutively represented by numbers:
  
Number of tithis of waxing Moon
Number of tithis of waning Moon


Nanda
Bhadra
Jaya
Rickta
Purna
Nanda
Bhadra
Jaya
Ricta
Purna
1
2
3
4
5
16
17
18
19
20
6
7
8
9
10
21
22
23
24
25
11
12
13
14
15
26
27
28
29
30

 Each of the tithis has a lord who ought to be worshiped on the day of the tithi. The Tithis and their lords are shown in the following table: -

Tithi
Lords
Pratipada
Agni (fire)
Dwitiya
Prajapati
Tritiya
Gauri
Chaturthi
Ganesh
Panchami
Ahi
Shasti
Kartik
Saptami
Rabi
Astami
Siva
Nawami
Durga
Dashami
Yama
Akadashi
Biswadeva
Dwadashi
Hari
Trayodashi
Kamdeva
Chatudashi
Siva
Purnima (Full Moon)
Chandra
Amabwashya (New Moon)
Pitragan

Any auspicious activity, project, and event, etc., initiated during the day of the following tithis mentioned  in the table below believed to yield no good result such as an outbound journey will be trouble generating and fruitless, a baby born is likely to die early, a marriage may end in separation, and a business may lose its capital etc.

Sl. No
Month
Tithi
1
Baisag (15  April to 14 May)
Sukla Sasti
2
Jaitha (15 May to 14 June)
Krishna Chaturthi
3
Asar (15 June to 14 July)
Sukla Astami
4
Shravan (15 July to 14 August)
Krishna Sasti
5
Bhadra (15 August to 14 September)
Sukla Dashami
6
Ashin  (15 September to 14 October)
Krishna Astami
7
Kartik (15 October to 14 November)
Sukla Dwadashi
8
MargaShirsha (15 November to 14 December)
Krishna Dashami
9
Paush (15 December to 14 January)
Sukla Dwitiya
10
Magh (15 January to 14 February)
Krishna Dwadashi
11
Phagun (15 February to 14 March)
Sukla Chaturthi
12
Chaitra (15 March to 14 April)
Krishna Dwitiya

Note: - The above-stated dates of the Gregorian calendar may vary by one or two days.
                        The End.

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