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Pitru Paksha begins dates
Computed year by year from the Moon and the Sun. Each row shows the tithi the festival sits on and the lunar month in both the amanta and purnimanta reckonings, because the two name the same month differently during krishna paksha.
Also called: Shraddha Paksha, Mahalaya Paksha
The next one
Wednesday, 15 September 2027
PurnimaThe full Moon night, the fifteenth of the bright half. Guru Purnima, Kartika Purnima and Holi all land on one, and it is a day for giving., BhadrapadaThe sixth lunar month, August into September. Ganesh Chaturthi and Janmashtami fall in it, and Pitru Paksha begins at its full Moon.
Bhadra until 03:44 pmThe seventh repeating karana, better known as Bhadra. This is the one karana new work waits out, though a journey already begun carries on.
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The rule
What the date is derived from, stated so you can check it.
Begins at BhadrapadaThe sixth lunar month, August into September. Ganesh Chaturthi and Janmashtami fall in it, and Pitru Paksha begins at its full Moon. PurnimaThe full Moon night, the fifteenth of the bright half. Guru Purnima, Kartika Purnima and Holi all land on one, and it is a day for giving. and runs the following krishna pakshaThe dark fortnight, full Moon back to new, the Moon thinning each night. It is not the bad half: Janmashtami, Dhanteras and Shivaratri all sit in it., ending at Sarva Pitru AmavasyaThe new Moon, the last tithi of the dark half, with no Moon in the sky at all. It is the day for tarpan and shraddha, and Diwali night is one..
The day is settled by the tithiThe lunar day. It runs from one step of the Moon's phase to the next, so it rarely begins at sunrise. Fasts and festivals are fixed by it. at sunrise.
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Pitru Paksha begins dates
| Year | Date | TithiThe lunar day. It runs from one step of the Moon's phase to the next, so it rarely begins at sunrise. Fasts and festivals are fixed by it. | Lunar monthThe lunar month, named after the nakshatra the full Moon lands in. It is about twenty-nine and a half days, so it drifts against the English calendar. |
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| 2025Sunday | Sunday, 7 September 2025 | PurnimaThe full Moon night, the fifteenth of the bright half. Guru Purnima, Kartika Purnima and Holi all land on one, and it is a day for giving. | BhadrapadaThe sixth lunar month, August into September. Ganesh Chaturthi and Janmashtami fall in it, and Pitru Paksha begins at its full Moon.Bhadra until 12:43 pmThe seventh repeating karana, better known as Bhadra. This is the one karana new work waits out, though a journey already begun carries on. |
| 2026Saturday | Saturday, 26 September 2026 | PurnimaThe full Moon night, the fifteenth of the bright half. Guru Purnima, Kartika Purnima and Holi all land on one, and it is a day for giving. | BhadrapadaThe sixth lunar month, August into September. Ganesh Chaturthi and Janmashtami fall in it, and Pitru Paksha begins at its full Moon.Bhadra until 10:47 amThe seventh repeating karana, better known as Bhadra. This is the one karana new work waits out, though a journey already begun carries on. |
| 2027Wednesday | Wednesday, 15 September 2027 | PurnimaThe full Moon night, the fifteenth of the bright half. Guru Purnima, Kartika Purnima and Holi all land on one, and it is a day for giving. | BhadrapadaThe sixth lunar month, August into September. Ganesh Chaturthi and Janmashtami fall in it, and Pitru Paksha begins at its full Moon.Bhadra until 03:44 pmThe seventh repeating karana, better known as Bhadra. This is the one karana new work waits out, though a journey already begun carries on. |
| 2028Sunday | Sunday, 3 September 2028 | PurnimaThe full Moon night, the fifteenth of the bright half. Guru Purnima, Kartika Purnima and Holi all land on one, and it is a day for giving. | BhadrapadaThe sixth lunar month, August into September. Ganesh Chaturthi and Janmashtami fall in it, and Pitru Paksha begins at its full Moon.Bhadra until 04:04 pmThe seventh repeating karana, better known as Bhadra. This is the one karana new work waits out, though a journey already begun carries on. |
| 2029Saturday | Saturday, 22 September 2029 | PurnimaThe full Moon night, the fifteenth of the bright half. Guru Purnima, Kartika Purnima and Holi all land on one, and it is a day for giving. | BhadrapadaThe sixth lunar month, August into September. Ganesh Chaturthi and Janmashtami fall in it, and Pitru Paksha begins at its full Moon.Bhadra until 09:06 amThe seventh repeating karana, better known as Bhadra. This is the one karana new work waits out, though a journey already begun carries on. |
| 2030Wednesday | Wednesday, 11 September 2030 | PurnimaThe full Moon night, the fifteenth of the bright half. Guru Purnima, Kartika Purnima and Holi all land on one, and it is a day for giving. | BhadrapadaThe sixth lunar month, August into September. Ganesh Chaturthi and Janmashtami fall in it, and Pitru Paksha begins at its full Moon.Bhadra until 03:10 pmThe seventh repeating karana, better known as Bhadra. This is the one karana new work waits out, though a journey already begun carries on. |
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The whole calendar
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