Somvati Amavasya
The Vaishakha new moon falls on a Monday.
When it falls
Monday, 24 April 2028
By the sunrise at Har Ki Pauri, Haridwar
- The rule
- Vaishakha Amavasya, at sunrise, on a Monday
- Which day
- Sunrise (udaya-vyapini)
- The day on which the tithi is running at sunrise at the ghat, with the usual fallback when a tithi touches no sunrise.
- Weight
- One of the year's great days
- Returns
- Once a year
What it is
A new moon that falls on a Monday is Somvati Amavasya, and it is the greatest of the amavasya bathing days at Haridwar: Har Ki Pauri on a Somvati morning is the fullest the ghat gets outside a Kumbh. In April 2028 the Vaishakha amavasya, by the purnimanta reckoning of the north, runs at sunrise on Monday the 24th, in the fortnight after Vaisakhi. Somvati is kept for ancestors and for husbands; the snan is at dawn and the pipal is circled after.
Where it is kept
Three of the six waters, Haridwar first by a distance.
Ganga
Har Ki Pauri, Haridwar
Purnimanta reckoning
The day Har Ki Pauri is built for. Come before four in the morning or stand on the bridge.
Triveni Sangam
Sangam, Prayagraj
Purnimanta reckoning
At the Sangam the day is one of the bathing days of the year.
Shipra
Ram Ghat, Ujjain
Purnimanta reckoning
Somvati at Ram Ghat is Ujjain's own big amavasya.
The windows
Brahma Muhurat
about 48 minutes
From sunrise
- Definition
- Two muhurtas of the night before sunrise, until one muhurta before it. A night muhurta is a fifteenth of the night, about 48 minutes at the equinox and longer in winter.
Brahma Muhurat falls before sunrise, so it belongs to the panchang day that opened at the previous sunrise, and the Gregorian date beside it is the next day. The calendar keeps the two apart.
Pratah Snan
about 96 minutes
From sunrise
- Definition
- Sunrise, until two muhurtas of the day after it. A day muhurta is a fifteenth of the daylight, about 48 minutes at the equinox and longer in summer.
This window sits after sunrise, so its panchang day and its Gregorian date agree.
Every time is given at the ghat first, and in your own zone beside it. How the clock is read
Where the timing comes from
- Source
- Computed here, checked against Drik Panchang
- Ayanamsa
- Lahiri (Chitrapaksha)
- Ghat coordinates
- Har Ki Pauri, Haridwar: 29.9457, 78.1642
Textual basis
The living usage of the ghats named below, and the puranic and dharmashastra literature on the day. A citable edition and passage is still to be added.
Every date here is computed: the tithi at the ghat's sunrise, the month named by the sankranti it holds, and the sun's entry into each sign under the Lahiri ayanamsa. Tithi, nakshatra, sunrise and windows were checked against Drik Panchang for Haridwar on eight days between September 2026 and March 2027, to the minute. The dates roll forward each morning.