Sri rAma navami

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Sri:

Sri Lakshminrusimha Parabrahmane namaha

Sri Lakshminrusimha divya pAdukA sEvaka SrivaNN -

SatakOpa Sri nArAyaNa yateendra mahAdESikAya namaha

 

namO nArAyaNA.

 

SrirAma navamI on march 25

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In Srirangam panchAngam, 25th march is given as

smArtha SrirAma navami and 26th as munitraya SrirAma

navami.

 

In Sri Nrusimha PriyA magazine, Sri U.Ve.AzhisUr

SrInivAsAchAryA has said that it is more appropriate

to observe SrirAma navami on march 25th. This swAmi

cites from pAdma samhitA << "ashtamyA navamI viddhA

trimuhUrtam yadA bhavEt | tadA parEdyurEvEyam sthitA

grAhyA tu vaishNavaihi " >>

and skAndam <<"punarvasuyutA rAmanavamI yadi shanmukha |

tribhirmuhUrtairvidhya chEt na grAhyA vishNutatparaihi>>.

 

Thus, for SrIrAma navamI, if 3 muhUrtha vEdai of ashtamI

is present, then vratam has to be observed the following

day. But, on march 25th, only 2.47 nAzhigai of ashtamI

is present and thus the vEdai dhOsham is not there =>

its more appropriate to observe SrirAma navamI on 25th

march itself.

 

Note: adiyEn doesn't know whether this calculation

will be different for different parts of the world.

But, atleast in TamiLnAdU / South India, SrirAma navamI

can be celebrated on march 25th.

 

adiyEn rAmAnuja dAsan

ananthapadmanAbha dAsan

krishNArpaNam

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

adiyEn rAmAnuja dAsan

ananthapadmanAbha dAsan

krishNArpaNam

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Sri Anand wrote:

> Note: adiyEn doesn't know whether this calculation

> will be different for different parts of the world.

> But, atleast in TamiLnAdU / South India, SrirAma navamI

> can be celebrated on march 25th.

 

Essentially, for places west of India, irrespective of

sampradAyam, it is my calculation that Sri Rama Navami

should be celebrated on March 25th. This is because the

start and end of nakshatra and tithi times are essentially

universal -- they are at the same instant across the globe

(except for parallax errors, which we shall ignore).

So, if a particular nakshatram is in ascendancy at 9 AM

in India, it is ascendant at the same time in San Francisco,

i.e., at 7:30 PM previous date. Just compensate for the

time difference.

 

For the particular case of Sri Rama Navami,

if the rule is that one should have less than 3 naazhigais

of ashtami, for places in the U.S., for example, the 25th

will be completely free of ashtami, so it is an appropriate

date. In the U.S., Sri Rama Navami should not be celebrated

on the 26th even for munitrayam sampradayam followers, because

it is Dasami, Pushya nakshatram. Sri Rama Navami must be

celebrated on Navami, with Punarvasu nakshatram.

 

For places east of India, it is probably better to observe

Sri Rama Navami on the 26th, by the same reckoning.

 

If this is confusing, I agree. At some point we have to

throw up our hands, celebrate our festivals on a given

day, and leave the "rightness" or "wrongness" up to

PerumaaL.

 

Mani