Pratipada
Pratipada is the first tithi, the day the Moon is twelve degrees past the Sun, and its adhidevata is Agni, the fire that carries offerings. It is the tithi of commencement, read as the moment when a thing may properly be begun.
Nanda ('joy') class, with the sixth and the eleventh: an auspicious tithi for beginnings. Shukla (waxing) tithi: the krishna (waning) tithi of the same number carries the same name and the same adhidevata with the prefix Krishna, and the waning fifteen are recorded as a group rather than as separate entries.
Symbols and forms
- Alternate Names
- PratipadPadyamithe first lunar day
Nature and meaning
- Kind
- Panchanga tithi
- Sanskrit
- प्रतिपदा
- English
- the first tithi of the fortnight
- Meaning
Pratipada is the first tithi, the day the Moon is twelve degrees past the Sun, and its adhidevata is Agni, the fire that carries offerings. It is the tithi of commencement, read as the moment when a thing may properly be begun.
Details
- Deity
- Agni
- Use
Auspicious for beginning any work, for agriculture, for building, for the installation of a king and for setting out on a journey. It is the day the lunar month opens, and the new year in several regional reckonings. Nanda class.
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