వ్రతాలు, మాస ఆచారాలు
A vratam is a vow kept on a particular tithi: a fast, a worship, and a resolution held for a day. Most recur every lunar month, which is what distinguishes them from festivals: festivals mark the year, and vratams keep its monthly rhythm.
Each page below gives what the observance is, who keeps it, the fasting rule, the pooja method, and every date it falls on this year and next. The dates are computed for India, from the tithi in force at 06:00 IST, and each one links through to that day's full panchangam, where the timings are recomputed for your selected city so you can check the ones that matter — the parana window after an Ekadashi, the pradosha kala before sunset, moonrise for Sankashti.
Where a regional tradition reckons an observance differently — and for Ekadashi in particular it often does — we say so on the page rather than quietly picking one reading.
Dates for India · IST (UTC+5:30) · tithi read at 06:00 local time · amanta months · Lahiri ayanamsa. How we calculate
ఏకాదశి
The eleventh tithi of each fortnight — the principal fasting day of the Vaishnava year.
తదుపరి: 6 అక్టో · 22 అక్టో
ప్రదోషం
The thirteenth tithi — Shiva worship in the twilight hour before sunset.
తదుపరి: 8 అక్టో · 24 అక్టో
సంకష్టహర చతుర్థి
The waning fourth tithi — Ganesha worship for the removal of obstacles, broken at moonrise.
తదుపరి: 29 అక్టో · 28 నవం
మాస శివరాత్రి
The waning fourteenth tithi — the monthly night of Shiva.
తదుపరి: 9 అక్టో · 8 నవం
మాస దుర్గాష్టమి
The waxing eighth tithi — monthly worship of Durga.
తదుపరి: 19 అక్టో · 17 నవం
కాలాష్టమి
The waning eighth tithi — worship of Kala Bhairava.
తదుపరి: 2 నవం · 1 డిసెం
స్కంద షష్ఠి
The waxing sixth tithi — monthly worship of Subrahmanya.
తదుపరి: 16 అక్టో · 15 నవం
సత్యనారాయణ వ్రతం
Kept on the full moon — the household vrat of Vishnu as Satyanarayana.
తదుపరి: 26 అక్టో · 24 నవం
చంద్ర దర్శనం
The first sighting of the new moon's crescent, the evening after amavasya.
తదుపరి: 11 అక్టో · 10 నవం
పౌర్ణమి
The full moon — vratam, charity and the brightest night of the month.
తదుపరి: 26 అక్టో · 24 నవం
అమావాస్య
The new moon — reserved for the ancestors, not for beginnings.
తదుపరి: 10 అక్టో · 9 నవం
ద్వాదశి
The twelfth tithi — the window in which the Ekadashi fast must be broken.
తదుపరి: 7 అక్టో · 23 అక్టో