🪷 पोङ्गल · Pongal / Thai Pongal
📅 When is Pongal / Thai Pongal?
| Year | Date | Day |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 2025-01-14 | Tuesday |
| 2026 (this year) | 2026-01-14 | Wednesday |
| 2027 | 2027-01-15 | Friday |
Tradition
Tradition: Regional
Vrata: No
Detection Rule (Pure Pañchāṅga-Based)
{
"sun_rashi_ingress": "Makara"
}Precedence: 2 (lower = higher priority on multi-festival days)
Engine: Festival catalogue runs at request time over the Sūrya-Siddhānta substrate's pañchāṅga output
Engine: Festival catalogue runs at request time over the Sūrya-Siddhānta substrate's pañchāṅga output
Sources and Connected Observances
Continue from this festival’s dates, significance, observance, detection rule, and textual witnesses to its day pages, related corpus passages, festival calendar, Pañchāṅga references, Bindu, and philosophy. Textual witnesses remain citation-level references until their complete source passages are available locally.
Pongal / Thai Pongallocal festival mūrti-page · Regional/festivalsall 124 festival pages and tradition categories/2026 Hindu calendaryear-level festival occurrence aggregation from the same engine2025 occurrencePongal / Thai Pongal computed on Tuesday, 2025-01-142026 occurrencePongal / Thai Pongal computed on Wednesday, 2026-01-142027 occurrencePongal / Thai Pongal computed on Friday, 2027-01-15BG 10.35Krishna as Mārgaśīrṣa among months and kusumākara among seasonsBG 10.30kālaḥ kalayatām aham · Krishna as Time among reckoners/jyotisha-referencetithi, nakshatra, vāra, and pañchāṅga element source layer/cosmic-timekalpa, manvantara, yuga, and annual-cycle time context/lagna-tithi-lokaMātṛ-Vidyā source layer for tithi, loka, and reader-local kṣetra/samskara-muhurtaoperational muhūrta doorway for dharmic timing decisions/bindufestival time as Bindu-touch aperture in the dharmic year/philosophyKrishna = Paramaatma = Parabrahman constitutional foundation