Indian Chronology (Solar, Lunar and Planetary): A Practical Guide to the Interpretation and Verification of Tithis, Nakshatras, Horoscopes and other Indian Time-records, B.C. 1 to A.D. 2000 c21.6

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114. Festivals connected with Nakshatras as well as Tithis.—On the Nakshatra Śravishta (No. 23) in Lunar Śrāvana, the ceremony of Upakarma (Āvani Avittam) is celebrated. Our Table XI shows that this festival would ordinarily fall about full moon in Śrāvana. In the same manner, all festivals associated with particular nakshatras may be equally well connected with particular tithis. In Southern India, however, it is usual to connect nakshatra festivals with certain solar months in which they are celebrated; e.g., *Panguni Uttaram* (i.e., *Uttara Phalguni* Nakshatra in the Solar month called *Panguni*), *Chittirai Mūlam* (i.e., *Mūla* Nakshatra in the Solar month *Chittirai*); *Avani Avittam* (*vide supra*), etc. Tithi festivals are also often connected in Southern India with Solar Months; and if a festival falls, for instance, on *sukla panchami* in a particular Solar Month, and there are two *Śukla panchamīs* in that month, the first is called *Sūnya tithi* and the second only is celebrated.