Guest guest Posted January 30, 2002 Report Share Posted January 30, 2002 Thanks for the run down on the Shivaratri's, can anyone explain how Prodosha fits in twice a month. I believe 13 days after both poornami and amavasya? Can anyone speak on the significance of this day and any relation it may have to Sivaratri? Thanks, Colin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted January 31, 2002 Report Share Posted January 31, 2002 Dear Colin, Saw your questions and the nice explanations given by Muruganandam. To add a few notes, Pradhosham and Shiva ratri do not have direct link. though they occur on consequent moon days. Shiva ratri is one of the ashTa mahA vratas prescribed by skandha mahA purANam. pradhosham is the vrata when the merciful Lord forgave the ignorance of devas and we pray to forgive our mistakes of non sincerity. Shiva ratri is the night (here it means the state of nothing existant than physical darkness, if such thing exists) where only shiva and shakti are present (before creation), and shakti worships shiva. This worship we observe as shivarAtri and specifically on the chaturdashi (14 th moon day) of the month mAsi (mid Feb - mid Mar). You could find more details on aShTa mahA vratas and pradhosham at http://www.shaivism.org/fesinf_f.htm namaH shivAya love, Ganesh , "Colin" <colin@s...> wrote: > Thanks for the run down on the Shivaratri's, can anyone explain how Prodosha > fits in twice a month. I believe 13 days after both poornami and amavasya? > Can anyone speak on the significance of this day and any relation it may > have to Sivaratri? > > > Thanks, > Colin Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted February 6, 2002 Report Share Posted February 6, 2002 , "sgesh" <sgesh> wrote: > Dear Colin, > Saw your questions and the nice explanations given by Muruganandam. > To add a few notes, Pradhosham and Shiva ratri do not have direct > link. though they occur on consequent moon days. Shiva ratri is one > of the ashTa mahA vratas prescribed by skandha mahA purANam. > pradhosham is the vrata when the merciful Lord forgave the ignorance > of devas and we pray to forgive our mistakes of non sincerity. Shiva > ratri is the night (here it means the state of nothing existant than > physical darkness, if such thing exists) where only shiva and shakti > are present (before creation), and shakti worships shiva. This > worship we observe as shivarAtri and specifically on the chaturdashi > (14 th moon day) of the month mAsi (mid Feb - mid Mar). Actual determination of shiva rAtri (i think) is based on chandramAna system - that is - mAgha mAsa kR^iShNa paxa chaturdashi. Mostly this should coincide with the tamil month mAsi (skt kumbha). Also, chaturdashi should prevail at midnight. If two consecutive days has chaturdashi at mid-night, the one on which the evening (pradoshha kaala) is also chaturdashi should be taken as mahAshivaraatri. The condensed text of vaidyanAtha dIxitiyam I have (it is called samxepa dharma shAstram) has a section called tithi nirNaya prakaraNam. It discusses how mahA shivarAtri is determined. Besides skanda puraaNa, it also quotes few other sources. HTH. Ravi Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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