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

Raghav Kumar Dwivedula raghavkumar00 at gmail.com
Wed Oct 16 00:50:05 EDT 2019


> Yes you are right, the Tamil method of fixing the annual shraddha thithi
> is different from that followed in most of the rest of India.
>
> Om
> Raghav
>
> On Tue, 15 Oct, 2019, 3:03 AM KAMESWARARAO MULA, <kamesh_ccmb at yahoo.co.in>
> wrote:
>
>> Dear Raghav kumar garu,
>>                                           Yesterday, it was happened by
>> chance to me to meet a tamil pandit on the occasion of Skanda shasti
>> mahostava by end of this month and I put your query to him and here is the
>> some authoritative answers which he gave to me.
>>
>> My reply to follow lunar calendar is not correct as all tamils follow the
>> solar calendar only for tithi purposes.
>>
>> Example he gave is that : Even if the person died on vijay damask (in
>> 2018, it fell on tamil month, aipasi shukla dasami), this year vijaya
>> dasami is celebrated on the earlier tamil moth (which is the month parties
>> shukla dasami) & as such their shraddha date will be 6th Nov, 2019 (shukla
>> dasami of aipasi month) and he is learned pandit is tamil customs, looks
>> some authoritative answer to be followed.
>>
>> regards
>>
>> Kameswara Rao
>>
>>
>> On Monday, 14 October 2019 7:21:53 am IST, Raghav Kumar Dwivedula via
>> Advaita-l <advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
>>
>>
>> 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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