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

V Subrahmanian v.subrahmanian at gmail.com
Sun Oct 13 22:27:27 EDT 2019


Even with reference to observing date of birth, in Tamil the custom is the
nakshatra on which one is born. In Kannada families I have observed it is
the tithi.

regards
subbu

On Mon, Oct 14, 2019 at 7:38 AM Raghav Kumar Dwivedula via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> Namaste Narayanan Gopal ji
> Are you saying that Kerala follows the Tamil procedure (saMkramaNAnta solar
> month) or the Telugu (amAvAsyAnta soli-lunar month)?
>
> Om
> Raghav
>
> On Sun, 13 Oct, 2019, 11:02 PM Narayanan Gopalan via Advaita-l, <
> advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
>
> > 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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