16 November 2081
- Tithi
- Shukla Purnima · until 6:50 PM
- Nakshatra
- Bharani
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- Abhijit Muhurta
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Festival · 2081
Kartik Purnima · Dev Deepawali 2081
Falls on 16 November 2081 in Ahmedabad, as computed from the real sky for that city.
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Wishing you a blessed Kartik Purnima · Dev Deepawali
May the lamps on the river tonight remind you that every light you see borrows from one light, and that it shines in you too.
तमेव भान्तमनुभाति सर्वं तस्य भासा सर्वमिदं विभाति ॥
tameva bhāntamanubhāti sarvaṁ tasya bhāsā sarvamidaṁ vibhāti ॥
Its meaning
As That shines, everything shines after it; by its light all this is lit.
Muṇḍaka Upaniṣad 2.2.10
When, for Ahmedabad
16 November 2081
Shukla Purnima · until 6:50 PM
Do
Take a lamp of clay to moving water, and clean the bank around you before you set it afloat.
Leave aside
Floating plastic lamps. A clay lamp and a leaf boat return to the earth.
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The sky that day
- The Moon
- Shukla Purnima
- The Sun is in
- Tula
- The Moon is in
- Mesha, in Bharani
The full Moon of Kartika closes the month the tradition counts holiest of the year, and its light falls on rivers already lined with lamps.
What the day is
The lamps go to the river. In Kashi the ghats are lit end to end for the devas.
The story
3 stories the day keeps. Turn each card.
1 / 3Tripurari: the three cities fallTurn ↻
Three asura brothers ruled three flying cities that could be struck only when they stood in one line, and only by a single arrow. Shiva, with the earth as his chariot and Mount Meru as his bow, loosed that one arrow and the cities fell. He is Tripurari, the foe of Tripura, and this full Moon is kept as his victory.
Shiva Purana, Rudra Samhita; the tale is told also in the Mahabharata, Karna Parva.
2 / 3Dev Deepavali at KashiTurn ↻
Kashi tells that on this night the devas come down to bathe in the Ganga. To welcome them the city lights its ghats from end to end, a river of lamps a fortnight after the people's own Diwali.
Kashi's living tradition.
3 / 3Guru Nanak is bornTurn ↻
Guru Nanak, the first Sikh Guru, was born at Talwandi, now Nankana Sahib. Sikhs keep his birth on the full Moon of Kartika, his Gurpurab, with dawn processions, the reading of the Guru Granth Sahib and the langar where all sit in one line to eat.
The Janamsakhis and the living Sikh tradition.
The days around it
2 days kept as one season. Each has its own page.
What is said, and what is so
Often said
Whatever is offered to the river, the river makes pure.
The root
A river receives a lamp of clay and a leaf boat. Plastic, foil and painted idols stay in her long after the night is over. Leave the bank cleaner than you found it; that is the offering she keeps.
How to keep Kartik Purnima · Dev Deepawali
Free acts, done by you. Kept so far this year: 0 of 3.
Take a lamp of clay to moving water, and clean the bank around you before you set it afloat.
Cook or serve a meal for others and sit to eat with them, in one line, as equals.
Sit before one lamp for ten minutes and let the eyes rest on its flame.
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 family's part
The youngest
Shapes a leaf boat and carries the family's lamp to the water.
The eldest
Tells the story of the three cities and the single arrow.
Everyone
Lights one lamp together and names, aloud, one person who taught each of them something true.
How India keeps it
Varanasi
Dev Deepavali: the ghats are lit end to end, and the Ganga carries the lamps past them through the night.
Sikh households and gurdwaras
Gurpurab: prabhat pheris at dawn, an unbroken reading of the Guru Granth Sahib, and langar for all who come.
Odisha
Boita Bandana: before dawn, small boats with lamps are floated on rivers and the sea, remembering the sailors of Kalinga.
Pushkar, Rajasthan
The great fair closes on this full Moon, with a bath in the sacred lake.
Jain communities
The pilgrimage to Shatrunjaya at Palitana, closed through the rains, opens again on this day.
The day, for Ahmedabad
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