🪷 सङ्कष्टी चतुर्थी · Saṅkaṣṭī Caturthī

📅 When is Saṅkaṣṭī Caturthī?

YearDateDay
20252025-01-17Friday
2026 (this year)2026-01-07Wednesday
20272027-01-26Tuesday
Monthly Gaṇeśa vrata.
Associated deity: Gaṇeśa

Tradition

Tradition: Pan-Hindu

Vrata: Yes (fasting day)

Detection Rule (Pure Pañchāṅga-Based)

{
  "tithi_number": 19,
  "tithi_paksha": "Kṛṣṇa"
}
Precedence: 6 (lower = higher priority on multi-festival days)
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.

Saṅkaṣṭī Caturthīlocal festival mūrti-page · Pan-Hindu/festivalsall 124 festival pages and tradition categories/2026 Hindu calendaryear-level festival occurrence aggregation from the same engine2025 occurrenceSaṅkaṣṭī Caturthī computed on Friday, 2025-01-172026 occurrenceSaṅkaṣṭī Caturthī computed on Wednesday, 2026-01-072027 occurrenceSaṅkaṣṭī Caturthī computed on Tuesday, 2027-01-26BG 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-lokalagna and tithi calculation method, traditional interpretation, and scripture boundary/samskara-muhurtaoperational muhūrta doorway for dharmic timing decisions/bindufestival time as Bindu-touch aperture in the dharmic year/philosophyKrishna = Paramaatma = Parabrahman constitutional foundation