[Advaita-l] Tamil way of fixing annual thithi is different from the rest of India?

[Narayanan Gopalan]

I think the procedure is same in kerala also. There is another practice of
observing the rituals on the same nakshatra of death, among some
communities. There is no universal pattern observed.

On Sun, 13 Oct, 2019, 8:50 PM Raghav Kumar Dwivedula via Advaita-l, <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> Namaste
> I observed that to fix the annual Shraddha date, the Tamil procedure is to
> note the thithi of death and note the solar month (saMkramaNAnta mAsa)  and
> then the next year the same *sankramaNa-anta* month is first chosen and
> then the same paxa and thithi are looked for to fix the annual ceremony for
> the departed. They don't use the amAvAsyAnta mAsa to reference the D.o.D.
>
>
> For example some one who passed away on 19 October 2018 (shukla paxa
> dashami of lunar month Ashwayuja or solar month 'aipasi') will have the
> annual Shraddha on 6 November 2019 (aipasi Shukla dashami) according to
> Tamil procedure while it would have been 8 October 2019 (Ashwayuja Shukla
> dashami) for Telugus and also the rest of India.
>
> I request learned members to clarify if what I wrote above  is correct.
>
> Om
> Raghav
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