[Advaita-l] Tamil way of fixing annual thithi is different from the rest of India?

[Raghav Kumar Dwivedula]

Namaste Narayanan Gopal ji
Are you saying that Kerala follows the Tamil procedure (saMkramaNAnta solar
month) or the Telugu (amAvAsyAnta soli-lunar month)?

Om
Raghav

On Sun, 13 Oct, 2019, 11:02 PM Narayanan Gopalan via Advaita-l, <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> I think the procedure is same in kerala also. There is another practice of
> observing the rituals on the same nakshatra of death, among some
> communities. There is no universal pattern observed.
>
> On Sun, 13 Oct, 2019, 8:50 PM Raghav Kumar Dwivedula via Advaita-l, <
> advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:
>
> > Namaste
> > I observed that to fix the annual Shraddha date, the Tamil procedure is
> to
> > note the thithi of death and note the solar month (saMkramaNAnta mAsa)
> and
> > then the next year the same *sankramaNa-anta* month is first chosen and
> > then the same paxa and thithi are looked for to fix the annual ceremony
> for
> > the departed. They don't use the amAvAsyAnta mAsa to reference the D.o.D.
> >
> >
> > For example some one who passed away on 19 October 2018 (shukla paxa
> > dashami of lunar month Ashwayuja or solar month 'aipasi') will have the
> > annual Shraddha on 6 November 2019 (aipasi Shukla dashami) according to
> > Tamil procedure while it would have been 8 October 2019 (Ashwayuja Shukla
> > dashami) for Telugus and also the rest of India.
> >
> > I request learned members to clarify if what I wrote above  is correct.
> >
> > Om
> > Raghav
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