வசந்த பஞ்சமி (சரஸ்வதி பூஜை)

வசந்த பஞ்சமி (சரஸ்வதி பூஜை) பற்றி

சிறப்பு

Vasant Panchami, the fifth day of the bright half of Magha, is the festival of Saraswati, goddess of learning, speech, music and the arts, and is traditionally taken as the herald of spring (vasanta), some forty days before Holi. Yellow, the colour of the ripening mustard fields, is the colour of the day in much of North India.

The Brahmavaivarta Purana is commonly cited for the tradition that Krishna first worshipped Saraswati on this Panchami and ordained her worship on it. Older traditions also link the day with Kama, the god of love, and his consort Rati, and with the spring festival of Madana. Many families choose it for a child’s first lesson in letters (vidyarambha, in Bengal hate khori).

எப்படி, எங்கே கடைப்பிடிக்கப்படுகிறது

Saraswati Puja is a major public festival in West Bengal, Odisha, Bihar, Jharkhand, Assam and Tripura, where schools, colleges and neighbourhood committees install images of the goddess. In Punjab and much of North India the day is Basant, with kites and yellow clothes, and the Sufi Basant at the dargah of Nizamuddin Auliya in Delhi, said to go back to Amir Khusrau, is held on it. The opening date of the Badrinath shrine for the year is traditionally announced on this day.

சடங்குகள்

Books, pens, musical instruments and the tools of one’s craft are placed before the goddess and worshipped, and in many Bengali homes they are not used for the rest of the day. Offerings include white and yellow flowers, sweets, saffron rice and seasonal fruit; in Bengal it is customary not to eat the season’s first kul (jujube) until it has been offered to Saraswati. Students offer pushpanjali in the morning, and community images are immersed the next day or soon after.

தேதி எப்படி நிர்ணயிக்கப்படுகிறது

Vasant Panchami is Magha Shukla Panchami, the same month in both reckonings. Saraswati Puja belongs to the forenoon, so the Panchami must prevail in the Purvahna, taken here as the first half of the daytime, from sunrise to midday. If Panchami covers part of the forenoon on two days, the day with the greater coverage is taken; if it covers the forenoon on neither day, the day on which Panchami prevails longest.

ஆதாரங்கள்

• Brahmavaivarta Purana, Prakriti Khanda (Saraswati worship on Magha Shukla Panchami)
• Nirnaya Sindhu and Dharma Sindhu: Purvahna-vyapini tithi convention for forenoon worship
• Encyclopaedia Britannica: Vasant Panchami

பகுதி, சமூகம், குடும்பத்தைப் பொறுத்து வழக்கங்கள் வேறுபடுகின்றன; இந்த விவரம் பின்னணிக்கானது, விதிமுறை அல்ல. மேலே உள்ள தேதி இந்தப் பக்கத்தில் காட்டப்பட்ட விதிப்படி கணக்கிடப்பட்டது.