Festivals · Punjab
Bhai Duj muhurat 2027 in Ludhiana
- Date
- Sunday, 31 October 2027
- Tithi
- Shukla Dvitiya
- Shukla Dvitiya tithi (the same across India)
- 30 Oct 5:52 pm – 31 Oct 5:13 pm
- Aparahna (afternoon)
- 1:15 pm – 3:27 pm
Kept on the day Shukla Dvitiya holds at Aparahna (afternoon) in Ludhiana.
Computed by Astrovarg's engine for Ludhiana (Asia/Kolkata), Lahiri ayanamsha, from the sunrise there.
About
Bhai Duj (Bhai Dooj, Yama Dvitiya) is the Dvitiya, the second day of the waxing moon of Kartika, and closes the Diwali festival. Sisters mark their brothers' foreheads with tilak, pray for their long life and feed them, and brothers give gifts in return. The day remembers Yamuna welcoming her brother Yama and feeding him at her home. It is kept on the day the Dvitiya holds in the Aparahna, the afternoon.
Questions
Which day is Bhai Duj this year?
It is kept on the day the Dvitiya holds in the Aparahna, the afternoon, in your city, the date shown at the top of this page. When the Dvitiya holds on both afternoons, or neither, the later day is taken.
Is there a muhurat for the tilak?
The time shown is the Aparahna, the afternoon window the texts give for this day's worship of Yama, and many families keep the tilak in it. Others keep it in the morning or when the family gathers; the texts we follow set no other hour for the tilak itself.
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