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14 September 2026 · Shukla Chaturthi · Bhadrapada
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Sun's entry into Makara (Capricorn) · Pausha–Magha · Surya
The one major festival fixed to the solar calendar rather than the moon — the sun turns north and the cold half of the year begins to loosen.
Shukla Panchami · Magha · Saraswati
The day spring is declared and Saraswati is honoured — learning, speech and music are placed before the goddess of all three.
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Purnima, then Pratipada · Phalguna · Vishnu (Narasimha), Krishna
A bonfire on the full-moon night, colour on the day after — the year's one licensed suspension of rank and distance.
Chaitra Shukla Pratipada · Chaitra · Brahma, Vishnu and Shakti
The lunisolar new year in the Deccan and Maharashtra — a day that tastes every flavour of the year before it begins.
Shukla Navami · Chaitra · Rama
The birth of Rama, kept at midday rather than midnight — with the Ramayana read aloud rather than merely worshipped.
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Purnima · Chaitra · Hanuman
The appearance of Hanuman — kept at sunrise, with the Chalisa and Sundarakanda, and offerings of sindoor and oil.
Vaishakha Shukla Tritiya · Vaishakha · Vishnu and Lakshmi
A day of beginnings and giving, named for what does not diminish when it is used for a worthy purpose.
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Shravana Shukla Panchami · Shravana · Naga deities and Shiva
A monsoon observance of snakes as guardians of water, soil, ancestry and the unseen life beneath cultivated ground.
Purnima · Shravana · —
A thread tied on the wrist as a stated undertaking of protection — between siblings, and older than that reading.
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Krishna Ashtami · Bhadrapada · Krishna
A birth kept at midnight, in a prison cell, in the rain — the festival preserves the circumstances, not just the date.
Shukla Chaturthi · Bhadrapada · Ganesha
Ganesha is installed as a guest for a fixed number of days, and then given up — the immersion is the point, not the loss.
Bhadrapada Shukla Chaturdashi · Bhadrapada · Vishnu as Ananta; Ganesha
A Vishnu vrat centred on a fourteen-knotted thread, sharing the day with the farewell immersion of Ganesha.
Bhadrapada Purnima to Ashvina Amavasya (sixteen tithis) · Bhadrapada–Ashvina · Pitrs, Yama, Vishnu
A fortnight set aside for the ancestors — not a festival but a debt being paid, with water, sesame and a cooked meal offered on the tithi on which each person died.
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Shukla Pratipada to Dashami · Ashvina · Durga, Rama
Nine nights of the goddess, then the tenth day of victory — the longest structured observance in the year.
Ashwin Shukla Purnima · Ashwin · Lakshmi and Krishna
The clear autumn full moon, observed with night vigil, moonlit kheer and traditions of Lakshmi or Krishna.
Kartik Krishna Chaturthi · Kartik · Shiva, Parvati and Ganesha
A moonrise fast centred on marital wellbeing, solidarity and prayer, observed especially across North and north-west India.
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Trayodashi to Dwitiya · Kartika · Lakshmi, Ganesha, Rama, Yama
Not one festival but five consecutive ones — wealth, light, homecoming, mountain, and siblings — kept across the darkest new moon.
Shukla Chaturthi to Saptami · Kartika · Surya and Chhathi Maiya
Four days of the hardest household fast in the tradition, and the only widely kept rite that offers to the setting sun before the rising one.
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Dates are lunar and shift each year; the Gregorian dates given are for 2026 and should be confirmed against a local Panchang, since tithi begins and ends at its own hour.