അക്ഷയതൃതീയ

അക്ഷയതൃതീയ-നെക്കുറിച്ച്

പ്രാധാന്യം

Akshaya Tritiya, the third day of the bright half of Vaishakha, takes its name from akshaya, undecaying: tradition holds that the merit of charity, worship and good deeds done on this day does not diminish. The Matsya Purana and the Bhavishya Purana praise the day, and it is counted among the yugadi tithis, as the day on which the Treta Yuga is said to have begun. Many traditions also keep it as the birth anniversary of Parashurama, the sixth avatara of Vishnu, though his Jayanti is sometimes dated a day apart.

For Jains the day, Akha Teej, recalls Rishabhadeva, the first Tirthankara, breaking a year-long fast with sugarcane juice offered by Prince Shreyansa, and many Jains complete the varshitap fast on it. In Maharashtra it is one of the three and a half wholly auspicious days (sade teen muhurta), with Gudi Padwa, Vijayadashami and half of Bali Pratipada, and in Rajasthan it is a traditional day for weddings.

എങ്ങനെ, എവിടെ ആചരിക്കുന്നു

Akshaya Tritiya is observed across India. The Himalayan temples of Gangotri and Yamunotri traditionally open for the season on this day; at Puri the Chandan Yatra of Jagannath begins and work on the Rath Yatra chariots is started; at Simhachalam the sandal paste is removed for the Chandanotsavam so that pilgrims see the deity’s true form. In recent decades the day has also become associated with buying gold and starting ventures; this is a popular modern custom, while the older texts lay their weight on gifts and worship.

ചടങ്ങുകൾ

The texts emphasise gifts suited to the hot season: pots of water (udakumbha), fans, umbrellas, sandals, barley flour (sattu), grain and fruit are given, and Vishnu and Lakshmi are worshipped, often with barley and tulsi. Many take a holy bath, offer water to the ancestors, or begin new undertakings such as a housewarming, the first sowing or a child’s first lesson, in keeping with the belief that what begins on this day endures.

തീയതി എങ്ങനെ നിശ്ചയിക്കുന്നു

Akshaya Tritiya is Vaishakha Shukla Tritiya, the same month in both reckonings. The Tritiya must prevail in the Purvahna, taken here as the first half of the daytime, from sunrise to midday. If it touches the forenoon on one day only, that day is kept; if on two days, the earlier, Dwitiya-joined day is taken by the tithi-yugma rule of Nirnaya Sindhu, which pairs Tritiya with Dwitiya; if on neither, the day on which Tritiya prevails longest.

സ്രോതസ്സുകൾ

• Matsya Purana (Akshaya Tritiya)
• Nirnaya Sindhu, Vaishakha-masa (Akshaya Tritiya) and the tithi-yugma rule (quoting Garuda Purana 1.128.16-17)
• Encyclopaedia Britannica: Akshaya Tritiya

ആചാരങ്ങൾ പ്രദേശങ്ങൾ, സമുദായങ്ങൾ, കുടുംബങ്ങൾ എന്നിവയ്ക്കിടയിൽ വ്യത്യാസപ്പെടുന്നു; ഈ വിവരണം പശ്ചാത്തല വിവരമാണ്, നിർദ്ദേശമല്ല. മുകളിലുള്ള തീയതി ഈ പേജിൽ കാണിച്ചിരിക്കുന്ന നിയമം അനുസരിച്ച് കണക്കാക്കിയതാണ്.