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

Raghav Kumar Dwivedula raghavkumar00 at gmail.com
Sun Oct 13 21:50:58 EDT 2019


Thank you for the response Subbu ji and Kameswara Rao garu

On Sun, 13 Oct, 2019, 11:23 PM V Subrahmanian via Advaita-l, <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> http://talkandcomment.com/p/69cd9c6b482dc4812824c323 (voice note)
>
> regards
> subbu
>
> On Sun, Oct 13, 2019 at 9:08 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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