Saptami
Saptami is the seventh tithi, and its adhidevata is Surya, the Sun. The tithi is read as favourable for movement and for anything done in the open, under the eye of authority.
Bhadra class. Surya is also the deity of the graha of the same name, whose entry in this file gives its own correspondences; the tithi's deity and the graha are the same figure used in two different schemes. 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
- the seventh lunar day
Nature and meaning
- Kind
- Panchanga tithi
- Sanskrit
- सप्तमी
- English
- the seventh tithi of the fortnight
- Meaning
Saptami is the seventh tithi, and its adhidevata is Surya, the Sun. The tithi is read as favourable for movement and for anything done in the open, under the eye of authority.
Details
- Deity
- Surya
- Use
Good for travel, for vehicles and riding, for royal and administrative work and for the worship of the Sun. Bhadra class, and auspicious for most undertakings.
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