గురు బ్రహ్మ గురుర్ విష్ణుః గురుర్ దేవో మహేశ్వరః
గురు స్సాక్షాత్ పరబ్రహ్మ తస్మై శ్రీ గురవే నమః
శుక్లాం బరధరం విష్ణుం శశివర్ణం చతుర్భుజం
ప్రసన్న వదనం ధ్యాయేత్ సర్వ విఘ్నోప శాంతయే
శ్రుతి స్మృతి పురాణానాం ఆలయం కరుణాలయం
నమామి భగవత్ పాదం శంకరం లోక శంకరం
ఓం నమః శివాయ
New year is around the corner and I am sure lot of us must be planning on some resolutions. Resolution not to take a resolution or some specific resolutions.
In
this post I thought I will deviate from my original purpose of this blog and post
some little information related to Lunar calendar which probably could be
useful to everyone.
A
Lunar month has two Pakshams – Sukla Paksham and Krishna Paksham. Sukla Paksham
is also called Bahula Paksham.
Each
paksham has 15 tithis (each tithi is approximately 1 day. Can range from 18-24
hours)
First
half of every month is Sukla Paksham and second half is Krishna Paksham.
Sukla
Paksham ends with Pournami (Full Moon Day) and Krishna Paksham ends with
Amaavaasya (New Moon day)
The
names of the tithis are: Pratipat, Dwiteeya, Trutheeya, Chaturthi, Panchami,
Shashti, Saptami, Ashtami, Navami, Dasami, Ekaadasi, Dwaadasi, Trayodasi,
Chaturdasi, Pournami (Or Amaavaasya).
The
names of the week days are: Bhaanu, Indu, Bhouma, Soumya, Bruhaspati, Sukra, Sthira.
Vaasara means week day. In the pooja that we perform, in the Sankalpam, we use
this as Bhaanu vaasare (for example), indicating the day of the week. Note that
the week days are named after the following bodies: Sun, Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, Saturn.
Similarly
the names of the months are: Chaitram, Vaisaakham, Jyeshtam, Aashaadam,
Sravanam, Bhaadrapadam, Aasvayujam, Kaartheekam, Maargasiram, Pushyam, Maagham,
Phaalgunam.
Generally
we celebrate our birthdays as per the English calendar date. It would be good
if we are aware of our lunar date as well so that we can celebrate as per that
date as well. For the benefit of everyone I am providing a URL (http://111.118.183.227/WebTithis/default.aspx)
which will allow you to get the lunar date (Maasam, Paksham, Tithi) for any
English calendar date. This is a program that I have written and is not fool
proof. So please don’t attempt at testing it J In case you face any issues, please do report so
that I can try resolving it. Please note that a tithi is independent of the
latitude and longitude (location). The tithi is calculated using the center of
the earth unlike planetary positions which are calculated based on latitude and
longitude.
There
is something called Sahasra Chandra darshanam that is performed for elders.
Basically someone who has seen 1000 Full moon days is eligible for this
celebration. When a person has attained the age of 81 years and 1 month (give
and take few days) then that person is supposed to have witnessed 1000 Full
moon days. For those interested the calculation is as follows:
Every
year, there are 12 Full moon days. So for 81 years it is 972 full moon days.
Every
3 years there will be one adhika maasam. So 27 more days.
One
full moon day during the last month totaling to 1000 full moon days.
Best
wishes for a wonderful New Year for every one. May God bless all.
సర్వే
జనాః సుఖినో భవంతు
PS: There could be typos and other mistakes in telugu and
english, kindly pardon me with big hearts.
