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Sheetal Ashtami 2027

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Sheetal Ashtami
The one day a Hindu kitchen goes cold: no fire is lit, and the family eats food cooked the night before — which is why the day is called Basoda, 'stale food'. Observed on Chaitra Krishna Ashtami, just after Holi, in honour of Sheetala, the goddess of pox and fevers.
Sheetal Ashtami 2027 falls on 30th March 2027.
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Sheetala is shown riding a donkey, holding a broom, a water pot and neem leaves — a broom to sweep away filth, water and neem to cool fevered skin. The Skanda Purana and Bhavishya Purana name her as the goddess who guards households from smallpox, measles, boils and eye disease. The cold-food rule has a seasonal logic: the festival sits in the turn from winter to summer, the old peak season for pox outbreaks, so the kitchen hearth is rested and only cooling foods are eaten. The bhog reflects this — in the North, dahi-vada, pakodi, chaat-papdi, puri and pua with curd and buttermilk; in Rajasthan and Marwar, bajra roti, bajra khichdi and kheer. Gujarat keeps a parallel fast called Shitala Satam, but times it to the day before Krishna Janmashtami instead.
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Hindu festivals are tied to a specific Tithi, not a fixed date — so the day shifts every year and even varies slightly across cities.

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Frequently Asked Questions

Hindu festivals — like Diwali, Navratri, Mahashivaratri, Holi and Janmashtami — mark sacred moments tied to deities, seasons and lunar/solar cycles. Each festival has its own story, vrat, prarthana and rituals, and is timed using the Panchanga so the date moves slightly every year against the Gregorian calendar.

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