Lucknow, Amrit Vichar: Basant Panchami will be celebrated on Friday, January 23. Saraswati Puja Muhurat is best from 6:18 am to 12:18 am. Panchami of Shukla Paksha in Magh month is celebrated as Basant Panchami. This year, Panchami Tithi will start from 02:28 am on Thursday 22nd January and will end on Friday 23rd January at 01:46 am i.e. Panchami Tithi will last for the whole day on 23rd January. Auspicious yoga on Basant Panchami, Moon will be in Aquarius after 08:33 in the morning in Pisces and Purvabhadraprad Nakshatra will be in Uttarabhadrapada Nakshatra after 02:33 in the day.
In Capricorn, 4 planets – Sun, Venus, Mars and Mercury will be together and Mars will be situated in its exalted sign. Due to Ravi Yoga and Jupiter being in the fourth house from the Moon, an auspicious combination of Gajakesari is also being created. Astrologer SS Nagpal says that Basant Panchami is an unknown auspicious time but this year due to the setting of Venus, marriages and other big auspicious functions will not be performed on this day.
This festival informs about the arrival of Rituraj spring. The beauty of nature in spring fascinates the mind. Mother Saraswati is known by the names Sharda, Veenavadani, Vagdevi, Bhagwati, Vagishwari etc. His vehicle is swan. Basant Panchami is also celebrated as the birth anniversary of Goddess Saraswati. Mother Saraswati is the presiding deity of education, songs, music, knowledge and art. By pleasing them, education, knowledge and art can be obtained with their blessings.
On Basant Panchami, one should worship Goddess Saraswati dressed in white and take bath in the morning. In her worship, one should offer milk, curd, butter, white sesame laddus, wheat ear, yellow-white sweets and yellow-white flowers and chant the mantras of Saraswati. On this day, one should wear yellow clothes and there is also a tradition of consuming more yellow colored food items.