| ॥ श्रीः ॥ | April 12 | April 13 | April 14 | April 15 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| +5:30 | India | Udupi | Ćaitrī Pūrṇimā, Hanūmaj-jayantī | New “Viśvāvasu” Year (saura) | ||
| Kolkata | ||||||
| Manali | ||||||
| New Delhi | ||||||
| Bengaluru | ||||||
| Gokarna | ||||||
| Morjim | ||||||
| +5:00 | Tajikistan | Dushanbe | ||||
| Russia | Perm | |||||
| Ufa | ||||||
| Orenburg | ||||||
| Yekaterinburg | Ćaitrī Pūrṇimā, Hanūmaj-jayantī | New “Viśvāvasu” Year (saura) | ||||
| Surgut | ||||||
| Chelyabinsk | ||||||
| +5:00 | Kazakhstan | Aktobe | ||||
| Aktau | ||||||
| Kokshetau | ||||||
| Almaty | ||||||
| Tekeli | ||||||
| Ust-Kamenogorsk (Oskemen) | ||||||
| +6:00 | Kyrgyzstan | Bishkek | ||||
| Russia | Omsk | |||||
| +7:00 | Krasnoyarsk | Ćaitrī Pūrṇimā, Hanūmaj-jayantī | New “Viśvāvasu” Year (saura) | |||
| Novokuznetsk | ||||||
| Novosibirsk | ||||||
| Barnaul | ||||||
| Tomsk | ||||||
| Thailand | Ko Pha-ngan | |||||
| +8:00 | Indonesia | Denpasar | ||||
| +9:00 | Russia | Mirny | Ćaitrī Pūrṇimā, Hanūmaj-jayantī | New “Viśvāvasu” Year (saura) | ||
| +10:00 | Khabarovsk | |||||
| Vladivostok | ||||||
| +12:00 | Petropavlovsk-Kamchatsky | |||||
| +4:00 | Armenia | Yerevan | Ćaitrī Pūrṇimā, Hanūmaj-jayantī | New “Viśvāvasu” Year (saura) | ||
| Georgia | Tbilisi | |||||
| Russia | Samara | |||||
| +3:00 | Volgograd | |||||
| +4:00 | Ulyanovsk | |||||
| +3:00 | Pyatigorsk | |||||
| Stavropol | ||||||
| Semikarakorsk | ||||||
| Krasnodar | ||||||
| Kerch | ||||||
| Simferopol | ||||||
| Russia | Donetsk | |||||
| Stary Oskol | Ćaitrī Pūrṇimā, Hanūmaj-jayantī | New “Viśvāvasu” Year (saura) | ||||
| Lipetsk | ||||||
| +3:00 | Voronezh | |||||
| Tambov | ||||||
| Kazan | ||||||
| Cheboksary | ||||||
| Kirov | ||||||
| Rostov-on-Don | ||||||
| Russia | Ryazan | |||||
| Moscow | ||||||
| Dubna | ||||||
| +3:00 | Velikiy Novgorod | |||||
| Saint Petersburg | Ćaitrī Pūrṇimā, Hanūmaj-jayantī | New “Viśvāvasu” Year (saura) | ||||
| Murmansk | ||||||
| Kostomuksha | ||||||
| Arkhangelsk | ||||||
| Smolensk | ||||||
| Belarus | Gomel | |||||
| Minsk | ||||||
| Grodno | ||||||
| +3:00 (DST) | Ukraine | Kharkov | ||||
| Poltava | ||||||
| Kremenchug | ||||||
| Krivoy Rog | ||||||
| Kiev | Ćaitrī Pūrṇimā, Hanūmaj-jayantī | New “Viśvāvasu” Year (saura) | ||||
| Kropyvnytskyi (Kirovograd) | ||||||
| Nikolaev | ||||||
| Odessa | ||||||
| Rovno | ||||||
| +3:00 (DST) | Kolomyia | |||||
| Israel | Ashkelon | |||||
| Moldova | Kishinev | |||||
| Cyprus | Nicosia | |||||
| Latvia | Riga | |||||
| Jurmala | ||||||
| Estonia | Tallinn | |||||
| Lithuania | Vilnius | Ćaitrī Pūrṇimā, Hanūmaj-jayantī | New “Viśvāvasu” Year (saura) | |||
| +2:00 (DST) | Poland | Warsaw | ||||
| Austria | Vienna | |||||
| Germany | Hitzacker | |||||
| Norway | Oslo | |||||
| Germany | Dillingen an der Donau | |||||
| Eppingen | ||||||
| Switzerland | Biel/Biennne | |||||
| France | Marseille | |||||
| Spain | Barcelona | |||||
| Madrid | ||||||
| Ceuta | ||||||
| +1:00 (DST) | UK | London | Ćaitrī Pūrṇimā, Hanūmaj-jayantī | New “Viśvāvasu” Year (saura) | ||
| -3:00 (DST) | Canada | Fredericton | ||||
| -4:00 (DST) | Toronto | |||||
| USA | New York City | |||||
| Philadelphia, PA | ||||||
| Miami | ||||||
| -5:00 | Mexico | Cancun | ||||
| -6:00 | Canada | Meadow Lake | ||||
| -7:00 (DST) | USA | Los Angeles | ||||
| ॥ ॐ तत्सत् ॥ | April 12 | April 13 | April 14 | April 15 | ||
Ćaitrī Pūrṇimā
Ćitra-Pūrṇimā, or Ćaitrī Pūrṇimā is the birthday of Hanūmān, the first of three avatāras of Mukhya-Prāṇa:
प्रथमो हनुमान्नाम द्वितीयो भीम एव च ।
पूर्ण्णप्रज्ञा तृतीयस्तु भगवत्कार्य्यसाधकः ॥
prathamo hanumān nāma dvitīyo bhīma eva ca •
pūrṇṇaprajñā tṛtīyas tu bhagavat-kāryya-sādhakaḥ ••
“First as Hanumān, second as Bhīma and the third time as Pūrṇaprajñā, he is the effector of Bhagavān's work.”
बुद्धिर्बलं यशो धैर्य्यं निर्भयत्वमरोगता ।
अजाड्यं वाक्पटुत्वञ्च हनूमत्स्मरणाद्भवेत् ॥
buddhir balaṁ yaśo dhairyyaṁ nirbhayatvam arogatā •
ajāḍyaṁ vāk-paṭutvañ ća hanūmat-smaraṇād bhavet ••
“True knowledge; happiness making one overlook demands of body and persona; good name among sajjanas; steadiness of conviction; fearlessness; freedom from maladies of the body and the character; absence of sloth; purity, deftness and gravity of speech — all these infallibly appear if Hanūmān is remembered.”
New “Viśvāvasu” Year
Ćāndra-yugādi — the beginning of the new year according to Ćāndric calculation (from the bright pratipada of Ćaitra month).
Saura-yugādi — the beginning of the new year according to solar calculation (on the day after Meṣa-saṅkrānti).
In Uḍupi it is customary to observe the new year beginning according to solar calculation. This time both new year days are consecutive.
Nava-varṣa, i.e. New Year, is traditionally observed by taking bath in holy tanks, oil ablutions, visiting Deva-mandiras, listening to pañćāṅga (coming year's almanac), eating flowers of neem tree, raising banners of dharma. New Year begins with the rise of Sūrya, therefore in the evening a tray with goodly things: coconuts, fruits, a mirrow, gems, is put in front of the worshippable Image of Kṛṣṇa in Uḍupi. These pure, beautiful and auspicious offerings to Śrī-Kṛṣṇa are the first things to be seen upon awakening in the new year.
“Viśvāvasu” is the 39th year in 60-year Bārhaspatya cycle (the cycle determined by the movement of Bṛhaspati — ‘Jupiter’). The coming “Viśvāvasu” year is 5127 years of the age of Kali (Vedic time-keeping system, unlike the Western calendar, counts the number of completed years and not the sequence number of the current year) and 787 years of Madhva's era.
The peculiarities of the upcoming year regarding humanity in general and especially applicable to nations and societies that live by dharma as they fit the definition of ‘man’ more fully than others—are described in the Jyotiṣ-śāstra as follows:
स्वल्पाम्बुवृष्टिः फलसस्यसम्पत् मध्या जनानां गदसम्भवश्च ।
विश्वावसौ स्यात्पृथिवीश्वराणां लक्ष्मीर्विलोला चिरसञ्चितापि ॥
“The rain is scarce, fruits and grains yield mediocre crop, illnesses arise in population, while the Lakṣmī of the rulers of the Earth — their wealth, power, and success, is rather fickle, albeit long established “.
‘Viśvāvasu’ is one of Viṣṇu's Names known from Mahābhārata. In Bhīṣma-parva Bhīṣma quotes the words of Ćaturmukha addressing Viṣṇu Himself:
विश्वावसुर्विश्वमूर्त्तिर्विश्वेशो
विष्वक्सेनो विश्वकर्म्मा वशी च ।
विश्वेश्वरो वासुदेवोऽसि तस्माद्
योगात्मानं दैवतं त्वाम् उपैमि ॥
viśvāvasur viśvamūrttir viśveśo
viṣvakseno viśvakarmmā vaśī ća •
viśveśvaro vāsudevo’pi tasmād
yogātmānaṁ daivataṁ tvām upaimi ••
‘Vasu’ is ‘wealth,’ ‘treasure,’ and Bhagavān Viṣṇu is the principal wealth in the whole of ‘viśva’, or the world. Dhātu √vas means ‘covering,’ and the Universe, the ‘viśvam’ safely hides Him from its inhabitants, while √vas also means ‘dwelling,’ and Viśvāvasu dwells everywhere in viśvam, and viśvam dwells in Him.
May the only imperishable Treasure of the world uncover Himself to saj-jīvas and attract them to strive for Him. May Lakṣmī help in this pursuit; may Viśvāvasu give them strength to remain neither inebriated nor incensed by proximate or distant allure of treasures she merely lends out.
om • viśvāvasave namaḥ • om
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