10 April 2098
Kept on the day its tithi runs at midday (madhyahna).
- Tithi
- Shukla Navami · until 11:30 AM
- Nakshatra
- Pushya
- Sunrise – Sunset
- 6:01 AM – 6:39 PM
- Abhijit Muhurta
- 11:55 AM – 12:45 PM
Festival · 2098
Rama Navami 2098
Falls on 10 April 2098 in Dubai, as computed from the real sky for that city.
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Wishing you a blessed Rama Navami
May you keep one promise this year that costs you something, as Rama kept his.
सत्यं वद । धर्मं चर ।
satyaṁ vada । dharmaṁ cara ।
Its meaning
Speak the truth. Walk in dharma.
Taittirīya Upaniṣad 1.11.1
When, for Dubai
10 April 2098
Shukla Navami · until 11:30 AM
Kept on the day its tithi runs at midday (madhyahna).
Do
Read the birth of Rama from the Bala Kanda, or the morning he left for the forest, slowly and aloud.
Leave aside
Celebrating Rama while breaking our own word.
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The sky that day
- The Moon
- Shukla Navami
- The Sun is in
- Meena
- The Moon is in
- Karka, in Pushya
The waxing Moon reaches its ninth day in the first month of the year, and the birth is kept at midday, when the Sun stands highest.
What the day is
The birth of Rama — the tradition's model not of power but of conduct under impossible constraint. The point of Rama is never what he could do; it is what he would not do.
The story
3 stories the day keeps. Turn each card.
1 / 3A son born at noonTurn ↻
King Dasharatha of Ayodhya, long without a son, performed a great sacrifice, and his three queens bore four sons. Rama was born to Kausalya on the ninth day of the bright half of Chaitra, at midday. The whole tradition gathers at noon on this day to welcome him.
Valmiki Ramayana, Bala Kanda.
2 / 3Who is the man of virtue?Turn ↻
Valmiki's poem begins with a question to Narada: is there a man in this world now who is virtuous, truthful, grateful, steady in his vows, kind to every creature, and who keeps his anger in his hand? The answer is Rama. The poem is not first about a warrior; it is about conduct.
Valmiki Ramayana, Bala Kanda, the first sarga.
3 / 3The crown and the forestTurn ↻
On the morning he was to be crowned, Rama was told he must instead go to the forest for fourteen years, to keep his father's word. He accepted without bitterness and comforted those who wept. What makes him Rama is not what he could have taken but what he would not take.
Valmiki Ramayana, Ayodhya Kanda.
The days around it
4 days kept as one season. Each has its own page.
- Gudi Padwa · Ugadi
The year begins: the gudi raised, bitter and sweet together.
2 April 2098 - Chaitra Navaratri
Nine spring nights of the Devi, one discipline kept.
2 April 2098 - Rama Navami
Rama born at noon; the promise kept at its cost.
You are here - Hanuman Jayanti
The first full Moon; strength remembered and given away.
15 April 2098
What is said, and what is so
Often said
Rama is worshipped as a king of victory and power.
The root
The texts honour him for his restraint: the promise kept at his own cost, the word given to the weak, the respect shown even to an enemy. The festival celebrates conduct, not conquest.
How to keep Rama Navami
Free acts, done by you. Kept so far this year: 0 of 3.
Read the birth of Rama from the Bala Kanda, or the morning he left for the forest, slowly and aloud.
At midday, sit for a few minutes and repeat the name of Rama with attention.
Offer a cool drink, panakam or buttermilk, to people passing in the heat: workers, delivery riders, anyone on the road.
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
Rocks the small cradle of baby Rama at noon and offers him the first sweet.
The eldest
Tells the story of Rama's birth, or reads a few lines of the Ramcharitmanas aloud.
Everyone
Each person names one promise they kept this year that cost them something.
How India keeps it
Ayodhya
Pilgrims gather by the Sarayu and the birth is celebrated in the temples at noon.
Bhadrachalam, Telangana
The wedding of Sita and Rama, the Sita Rama Kalyanam, is celebrated on this day before vast crowds.
Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh
Panakam, a jaggery and pepper drink, and spiced buttermilk are offered to everyone who comes, in the first heat of the year.
North India
Ramcharitmanas recitations and Ram katha run through the day; Tulsidas tells that he began the poem on Rama Navami.
The day, for Dubai
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.