Trivikrama masa

[Guest guest]

Please accept my obeisances. All glories to Srila Prabhuapda!

 

Why on the Vaisnava calendar for this year is there no caturti tithi in

Trivikrama masa? How can we count one, two three, five? :-)

 

Your servant, Urmila devi dasi

[Guest guest]

---------- Forwarded Message ----------

 

Letter PAMHO:9788477 (37 lines)

Internet: "Gregory Jay" <gregjay (AT) softhome (DOT) net>

05-May-05 00:37 (14:37 -1000)

Urmila (dd) ACBSP (ISKCON School NC - USA) [17901] (forwarded:

05-May-05 01:20)

Cc: (Arcana) Deity Worship [5831]

Cc: Yadu-srestha (das) PVS (TP Perth - AU) [12420]

Reference: Text PAMHO:9788103 by Urmila (dd) ACBSP (ISKCON School NC - USA)

Re: Trivikrama masa

---------------------------

Haribol, PAMHO AGTSP

 

On May 4, 2005, at 11:56 AM, Urmila (dd) ACBSP (ISKCON School NC - USA)

wrote:

 

> Why on the Vaisnava calendar for this year is there no caturti tithi in

> Trivikrama masa? How can we count one, two three, five? :-)

 

There are indeed two caturthis (krsna and sukla) in Trivikrama masa on

my calendar calculated for Maui (because sunrise is at a different time

here). (My Trivikrama APPEARS to have no krsna dvitiya and 2 sukla

ekadasis. So things like this are very common.) The answer to this

question lies in the very nature of the lunar calendar. Indeed

sometimes there are two consecutive solar days which are labeled as the

same lunar day (tithi), and also there are times when certain lunar

days APPEAR to be missing. Of course they are not really missing only

not named as they were not present at any sunrise. The reason is that

the day as marked on the calendar is named after whichever lunar tithi

is occurring at the time of sunrise. If a lunar tithi extends over two

sunrises then two days will have the same tithi name and on the other

hand if a tithi expires soon after sunrise the whole of that day is

named after it even though the majority of the time is the next tithi,

and if again that next tithi expires before dawn the next day then it

will APPEAR that there is no day named after that tithi as only the

next one (the one present at sunrise the next day) is named. Also

sometimes vratas like Ekadasi are not observed on the day named Ekadasi

but on the day named Maha Dvadasi or else as in my Trivikrama there are

two Ekadasis side by side of which the second one is the fast day. And

there are different rules for calculating this. Smartas and Vaisnavas

many times disagree on when to observe certain dates due to differences

in these rules. For more information you can contact Shyamasundara das

the creator of the VCAL Vaisnava calendar program or consult the rules

directly in books like Hari Bhakti Vilasa.

 

ys

 

Gaura Keshava das

(Text PAMHO:9788477) ------

 

------- End of Forwarded Message ------