Tritiya

Basava Jayanti marks Basavanna's birth on Akshaya Tritiya. This article sets out the day, what we know of the vachanas and early accounts, and what is custom.

Rishabhanatha, the first of the twenty-four Tirthankaras, taught humanity the arts of civilization before renouncing his kingdom to attain liberation.

Varshitap devotees fast on alternate days for thirteen months, reenacting Rishabhanatha's own four-hundred-day fast before he finally accepted sugarcane juice.

The story of Parvati’s twelve-year penance in the Himalayas to win Lord Shiva as her husband, and why married women keep the rigorous waterless Hartalika Teej fast on Bhadrapada Shukla Tritiya.

Hartalika Teej worship in order, from the sand idols and sankalp to the night vigil and breaking the fast, with printed mantras and what no early text says.

The Chhota Char Dham circuit in the Garhwal Himalayas unites Yamunotri, Gangotri, Kedarnath, and Badrinath into one sacred Himalayan pilgrimage said to dissolve karma.