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The Hindu calendar is lunisolar but most festival dates are specified using the lunar portion of the calendar. A lunar day is uniquely identified by three calendar elements: māsa (lunar month), pakṣa (lunar fortnight) and tithi (lunar day).
Furthermore, when specifying the masa, one of two traditions are applicable, viz. amānta / pūrṇimānta. If a festival falls in the waning phase of the moon, these two traditions identify the same lunar day as falling in two different (but successive) masa.
A lunar year is shorter than a solar year by about eleven days. As a result, most Hindu festivals occur on different days in successive years on the Gregorian calendar.
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Dhanteras[1] (Hindi: धनतेरस), also known as Dhanatrayodashi (Sanskrit: धनत्रयोदशी), is the first day that marks the festival of Diwali in most of India.
It is celebrated on the thirteenth lunar day (Trayodashi) of Krishna Paksha (dark fortnight) in the Hindu calendar month of Ashvin (according to the amanta tradition) or Kartika (according to the purnimanta tradition). Dhanvantari, who is also worshipped on the occasion of Dhanteras, is considered the god of Ayurveda who imparted the wisdom of Ayurveda for the betterment of mankind and to help rid it of the suffering of disease.[2] The Indian ministry of Ayurveda, Yoga and Naturopathy, Unani, Siddha and Homeopathy, announced its decision to observe Dhanteras, as the "National Ayurveda Day", which was first observed on 28 October 2016.[3]
^"এবারের ধনতেরাস ঘুরে দাঁড়ানোর , এবারের ধনতেরাস পাশে দাঁড়ানোর". Nagarik News. 13 November 2020.[permanent dead link]
^Hope-Murray, Angela (2013). Ayurveda For Dummies. John Wiley & Sons. p. 10. ISBN 9781118306703.
^"Dhanteras to be observed as National Ayurveda Day". Times of India. 30 September 2016. Retrieved 13 October 2018.
announced its decision to observe Dhanteras, as the "National Ayurveda Day", which was first observed on 28 October 2016. Dhanteras is the worship of Dhanvantari...
lunisolar calendar. The festivities begin two days before amāvasyā, on Dhanteras, and extend two days after, until the second (or 17th) day of the month...
Thrayodashi occurs on the thirteenth and the twenty-eighth day of each month. Dhanteras, also called Dhantrayodasi, is the first day of Diwali. It occurs on Thrayodashi...
Dhanvantari to seek his blessings for sound health for themselves and others on Dhanteras, two days before Deepavali. It is also celebrated as National Ayurveda...
actresses List of people from West Bengal "Amika Shail: My birthday was on Dhanteras so it was a double celebration - Times of India". The Times of India....
Ayurveda Day is also observed in India on the birth of Dhanvantari that is Dhanteras. In 2016, the World Health Organization (WHO) published a report titled...
India on the 28th October 2016 to mark the day of Dhanwantri Jayanti (Dhanteras). It is observed to promote and globalise Ayurveda as one of the most...
the original on 28 August 2021. Retrieved 24 July 2016. "Shael Oswal: Dhanteras will be extra special this year because our 'ghar ki Lakshmi' has arrived"...
October 2022. Retrieved 17 October 2022. "Akanksha Juneja on buying gold on Dhanteras and performing p." The Times of India. 23 October 2022. Retrieved 23 October...
places in India, it is believed that watching a lizard on the eve of Dhanteras is a good omen or a sign of prosperity.[citation needed] In Sri Lanka...
on 8 November 1920, that coincided in that year with the festival of Dhanteras, the eve of the Indian festival of Deepavali. She was named Dhanlakshmi...
"Ssharad Malhotra, Rashami Desai reveals their special shopping plan for Dhanteras". Daily Bhaskar. Tiwari, Vijaya (14 December 2019). "Exclusive - Bigg...
26 December 2018. Retrieved 26 October 2011. First Diwali day called Dhanteras or wealth worship. We perform Laskshmi-Puja in evening when clay diyas...
at Pithapuram Datta Mahasamsthan in the state of Andhra Pradesh. Dhanteras - Dhanteras (Hindi: धनतेरस), also known as Dhanatrayodashi (Sanskrit: धनत्रयोदशी)...
shop is followed by steel utensil shops which draw large crowds during Dhanteras. On the north-west corner of the market, the first shop is a shoe shop...
after the Dussehra festival. The five-day festival of lights begins with Dhanteras as the first day when females do Gau Puja which includes Sing Abhishek...
goddess Lakshmi is worshipped. Festivities start two days earlier, with Dhanteras, when metal utensils are purchased as a token of the desired prosperity...
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