Festival · 2024

Nag Panchami 2024

Falls on 9 August 2024 in Patna, as computed from the real sky for that city.

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The day, for Patna

9 August 2024

Tithi: Shukla Panchami · until 03:14, 10 August 2024
Nakshatra: Hasta
Sunrise – Sunset: 05:20 – 18:29
Abhijit Muhurta: 11:28 – 12:21

The full day →

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.

What the day is

The serpents honoured — the tradition's oldest ecological instinct, protecting the creature everyone else kills.

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