[Advaita-l] Tamil way of fixing annual thithi is different from the rest of India?

[V Subrahmanian]

http://talkandcomment.com/p/69cd9c6b482dc4812824c323 (voice note)

regards
subbu

On Sun, Oct 13, 2019 at 9:08 PM Raghav Kumar Dwivedula via Advaita-l <
advaita-l at lists.advaita-vedanta.org> wrote:

> Namaste
> I observed that to fix the annual Shraddha date, the Tamil procedure is to
> note the thithi of death and note the solar month (saMkramaNAnta mAsa)  and
> then the next year the same *sankramaNa-anta* month is first chosen and
> then the same paxa and thithi are looked for to fix the annual ceremony for
> the departed. They don't use the amAvAsyAnta mAsa to reference the D.o.D.
>
>
> For example some one who passed away on 19 October 2018 (shukla paxa
> dashami of lunar month Ashwayuja or solar month 'aipasi') will have the
> annual Shraddha on 6 November 2019 (aipasi Shukla dashami) according to
> Tamil procedure while it would have been 8 October 2019 (Ashwayuja Shukla
> dashami) for Telugus and also the rest of India.
>
> I request learned members to clarify if what I wrote above  is correct.
>
> Om
> Raghav
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