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  1. ದೌಹಿತ್ರ ಪ್ರತಿಪದ | Dauhitra Pratipada
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    The day after Mahalaya Amavasya, when a daughter's son offers shraddha to his mother's father, even while his own father is living.

    Jeevana Sutra Anudina 901 words
  2. ಗಜಚ್ಛಾಯಾ ಯೋಗ | Gajachchhaya yoga
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    The rare combination in the fortnight of the ancestors of the Sun in Hasta with the Moon in Magha on trayodashi, or in Hasta on the amavasya, held to be the finest hour for a shraddha.

    Jeevana Sutra Anudina 877 words
  3. ಮಘಾ ಶ್ರಾದ್ಧ | Magha shraddha
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    The day in the fortnight of the ancestors when the Moon stands in Magha, the nakshatra whose deity is the Pitrs themselves, usually near the trayodashi.

    Jeevana Sutra Anudina 860 words
  4. ಮಹಾ ಭರಣಿ | Maha Bharani
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    The day in the fortnight of the ancestors when the Moon stands in Bharani, the nakshatra of Yama: a shraddha on it is held equal to one at Gaya.

    Jeevana Sutra Anudina 822 words
  5. ಮಹಾಲಯ ಶ್ರಾದ್ಧ | Mahalaya shraddha
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    The shraddha of the fortnight of the ancestors, kept on the tithi on which each one died, and dated by the tithi running in the afternoon, not at sunrise.

    Jeevana Sutra Anudina 1,052 words
  6. ಏಕಾದಶಿ | Ekadashi
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    The eleventh tithi of each fortnight, fasted twice a lunar month: how the day is chosen, why smartas and vaishnavas differ, and how the fast is broken.

    Jeevana Sutra Anudina 1,037 words
  7. ಚಾತುರ್ಮಾಸ್ಯ ಆರಂಭ | Chaturmasya begins
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    The four-month period of restraint that opens in the bright fortnight of Ashadha, kept from the ekadashi by some traditions and from the purnima by others.

    Jeevana Sutra Anudina 812 words
  8. ಮಹಾಲಯ ಅಮಾವಾಸ್ಯೆ | Mahalaya Amavasya
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    The new moon that closes the fortnight of the ancestors, and the day on which any shraddha missed during the year can still be kept.

    Jeevana Sutra Anudina 1,087 words
  9. ಅಧಿಕ ಮಾಸ: ಹೆಚ್ಚುವರಿ ಮಾಸ | Adhika masa: the extra month
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    Why the Hindu calendar needs a thirteenth month about every third year, how it is detected, and what is set aside during it.

    Jeevana Sutra Anudina 730 words
  10. ಮಂಡಲ ಕಾಲ ಆರಂಭ | Mandala Kalam begins
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    The forty-one days of the Sabarimala season, counted from the sun's entry into Vrischika, with the vratam kept by those who wear the Ayyappa mala.

    Jeevana Sutra Anudina 884 words