28 January 2088
- Tithi
- Shukla Panchami · until 12:29 AM, 29 January 2088
- Nakshatra
- Uttara Bhadrapada
- Sunrise – Sunset
- 7:01 AM – 6:04 PM
- Abhijit Muhurta
- 12:11 PM – 12:55 PM
Festival · 2088
Vasant Panchami 2088
Falls on 28 January 2088 in Bhopal, as computed from the real sky for that city.
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Wishing you a blessed Vasant Panchami
May Saraswati bless your speech with truth, your memory with clarity, and your learning with joy.
कीर्तिः श्रीर्वाक्च नारीणां स्मृतिर्मेधा धृतिः क्षमा
kīrtiḥ śrīr vāk ca nārīṇāṁ smṛtir medhā dhṛtiḥ kṣamā
Its meaning
Fame, grace and speech, memory, wisdom, steadfastness and patience.
Bhagavad Gita 10.34
When, for Bhopal
28 January 2088
Shukla Panchami · until 12:29 AM, 29 January 2088
Do
Teach a child one letter, one word or one line; or begin learning something you are bad at.
Leave aside
Studying only for marks. Saraswati is the love of knowing.
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The sky that day
- The Moon
- Shukla Panchami
- The Sun is in
- Makara
- The Moon is in
- Meena, in Uttara Bhadrapada
The bright half of Magha is five days old and the Moon is waxing, while the Sun leaves the deepest cold behind and the first mustard yellow opens in the fields.
What the day is
Saraswati's day, and spring's first. Traditionally the day a child is taught their first letter.
The story
2 stories the day keeps. Turn each card.
1 / 2The river that became speechTurn ↻
In the Rigveda, Saraswati is a mighty river and also the one who purifies, who awakens true words and kindles good thought. A river that nourished the land became the goddess of all that flows in the mind: speech, learning, music.
Rigveda 1.3, and many hymns to Saraswati across the Rigveda.
2 / 2A silent world given voiceTurn ↻
The tradition tells that when the world was first made, it was complete and silent. Saraswati appeared with the veena, and at its sound the waters murmured, the wind found its voice and the birds began to sing. Spring begins on her day because the world began to speak on it.
As the living tradition keeps it.
What is said, and what is so
Often said
A child slow to learn needs a special puja bought for them.
The root
Saraswati is honoured by learning itself: a book opened, a note practised, a question asked with patience. Nothing is bought; a little practice each day is her worship.
How to keep Vasant Panchami
Free acts, done by you. Kept so far this year: 0 of 2.
Teach a child one letter, one word or one line; or begin learning something you are bad at.
Learn the Saraswati vandana, Ya kundendu tushara hara dhavala, and say it once with its meaning.
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
Writes their first letter, or their best one, and places a book or an instrument before the goddess.
The eldest
Teaches the children one thing they know by heart: a verse, a song, a rhyme from their own childhood.
Everyone
Wear something yellow and share a sweet coloured with saffron, the colour of the mustard in flower.
How India keeps it
Bengal
Saraswati Puja: students lay their books and instruments before the goddess and do not study that day; small children are given their first letters, hate khori.
Telangana
At the Gnana Saraswati temple in Basara, families bring young children for aksharabhyasam, the first writing of letters.
Punjab
Basant: yellow clothes, yellow rice and kites over the fields of mustard.
Delhi
At the dargah of Nizamuddin Auliya, Sufi Basant is kept with yellow flowers and the songs of Amir Khusrau.
The day, for Bhopal
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.