Krishna Saptamiసప్తమి
Tithis 2, 7 and 12. Steady, constructive work.
- Deity
- Surya
- Paksha
- Krishna Paksha
- Group
- Bhadra — auspicious
- Sanskrit
- Saptami
- Telugu
- సప్తమి
- Number
- 7 / 15
About Krishna Saptami
The seventh tithi is the Sun's, and it carries his qualities: vitality, clarity, authority and health. Ratha Saptami, in shukla paksha of Magha, marks the sun's chariot turning north and is observed as his birthday. The tithi has a long association with healing, particularly of the eyes and of the skin.
The paksha
In krishna paksha the moon is waning, losing light each night. The waning half is treated as favourable to inward, reductive and concluding work — practice, fasting, ancestral rites and the settling of what is outstanding — rather than to new outward beginnings.
Bhadra — auspicious
Bhadra means 'good' or 'fortunate'. These are the workmanlike tithis: good for building, for trade, for study and for the ordinary business of a household. Their weekday is Wednesday.
What it traditionally favours
Sun worship, matters of health and vitality, travel, dealings with authority, and beginning a course of treatment.
How this tithi is reckoned
The tithi shown on any date page is the one running at sunrise in the city you have selected, which is the convention used by published panchangams. Because a tithi can begin or end at any hour, the same calendar date can carry a different tithi in two cities several time zones apart — this is a real difference, not an error, and it is why every timing on this site is computed for a specific place rather than for a country.