Durga Puja: Maha Saptami

Traditional variation

Bengal almanacs (Vishuddha Siddhanta, Gupta Press) fix the Saptami puja by the Saptami tithi in the forenoon and can differ from the government list by a day when a tithi is lost or repeated; the date here follows the West Bengal holiday list and the Rashtriya Panchang. The Government of Bihar list keeps the first of two Saptami sunrises (17 October 2026, where this page gives 18 October). The Nabapatrika is bathed at dawn of this day; check the puja timings of your pandal.

This is the date given by the rule shown above for the selected place. It is not the only valid date: regional Panchangs, family customs and sampradayas may observe it on a different day.

Rule source: Bengal Durga Puja: Maha Saptami, Maha Ashtami, Maha Navami and Vijaya Dashami are kept on consecutive days, the Ashtami and Navami pujas on one day when Navami begins on the Ashtami day. The platform dates Maha Saptami as the day before Maha Ashtami (durga_ashtami, the udaya-Ashtami day), the order in which the Government of West Bengal holiday lists ("Durga Puja, Maha Saptami": 10 Oct 2024, 29 Sep 2025, 18 Oct 2026) and the Rashtriya Panchang (IMD, "Durga Puja begins (Saptami)", same days, Saka 1946-1948) print the days; the Government of Bihar lists agree in 2024 and 2025 and give 17 Oct 2026, the first of two Saptami sunrises (a known difference). Bengal almanacs fix each puja by its own tithi; this sequence rule is a platform convention matching the official lists

Traditions may vary by region and Panchang convention. Times are shown for the selected place, time zone and calculation profile.

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