22 October 2098
Kept on the day its tithi runs at dusk (pradosh).
- Tithi
- Krishna Trayodashi · until 8:54 PM
- Nakshatra
- Uttara Phalguni
- Sunrise – Sunset
- 6:00 AM – 5:24 PM
- Abhijit Muhurta
- 11:19 AM – 12:05 PM
Festival · 2098
Dhanteras 2098
Falls on 22 October 2098 in Varanasi, as computed from the real sky for that city.
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Wishing you a blessed Dhanteras
May Dhanvantari's gift be yours this year: a body cared for, a mind at ease, and health enough to share.
युक्ताहारविहारस्य युक्तचेष्टस्य कर्मसु युक्तस्वप्नावबोधस्य योगो भवति दुःखहा
yuktāhāra-vihārasya yukta-ceṣṭasya karmasu / yukta-svapnāvabodhasya yogo bhavati duḥkha-hā
Its meaning
For one who is moderate in food and recreation, moderate in effort in actions, moderate in sleep and waking, yoga becomes the destroyer of sorrow.
Bhagavad Gita 6.17
When, for Varanasi
22 October 2098
Krishna Trayodashi · until 8:54 PM
Kept on the day its tithi runs at dusk (pradosh).
Do
Do one thing for an elder's health today: a walk together, a check-up booked, their medicines sorted.
Leave aside
Buying out of fear of loss. Nothing is lost by not buying; the day is health's.
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Wishing you a blessed Dhanteras
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The sky that day
- The Moon
- Krishna Trayodashi
- The Sun is in
- Tula
- The Moon is in
- Kanya, in Uttara Phalguni
The Moon wanes towards the new moon of Deepavali. Before the lamps of Lakshmi, the tradition gives this evening to health, and to a lamp for Yama.
What the day is
Dhanvantari, who rose from the churning of the ocean carrying medicine — the day is about health as the first wealth. The metal-buying is a much later graft.
The story
2 stories the day keeps. Turn each card.
1 / 2Dhanvantari rises from the oceanTurn ↻
When the gods and the asuras churned the ocean of milk, among the last to rise was Dhanvantari, the physician of the gods, carrying the pot of amrita. This trayodashi is kept as his day, Dhanvantari Trayodashi, and Dhanteras takes its name from it.
Bhagavata Purana 8.8; the day's name from the living tradition.
2 / 2A lamp for YamaTurn ↻
At dusk a lamp is set outside the door, facing south, the direction of Yama. It is an offering to the lord of dharma, who keeps the measure of every life, made once a year by the whole household together.
The household custom of Yama-dipa, as the tradition keeps it.
The days around it
5 days kept as one season. Each has its own page.
- Dhanteras
Dhanvantari's day: health, and a lamp at the door.
You are here - Day 2
Naraka Chaturdashi
Krishna frees the captives; an oil bath before dawn.
- Deepavali
Lakshmi at dusk; the lamps against the new moon.
23 October 2098 - Govardhan Puja
Krishna lifts the hill; a mountain of food is shared.
25 October 2098 - Bhai Dooj
A sister's tilak and meal; Yama visits Yamuna.
26 October 2098
What is said, and what is so
Often said
Buy gold or new vessels today, or the year will bring loss.
The root
The day belongs to Dhanvantari, the physician of the gods. Buying metal is a later custom of the market. Nothing is lost by not buying; the older keeping is health, your own and someone else's.
How to keep Dhanteras
Free acts, done by you. Kept so far this year: 0 of 2.
Do one thing for an elder's health today: a walk together, a check-up booked, their medicines sorted.
Clear one shelf or cupboard, and give away what is still useful to someone who needs it.
Each act is free and done by you. Keeping one writes it to your karma ledger with the day's panchang. Nothing here is ever bought, and no act is a remedy.
The day, for Varanasi
The day is chosen by the moment the tradition reads its tithi at, and the times are that day's own, computed for this city. A festival-specific puja window is not printed: those rules differ by tradition and await a scholar's review.
For another city
The stories, their sources and the regional customs on this page await a scholar's review. The sky and the dates are computed for your city.