Shashthi (day)

For the Hindu goddess, see Shashthi.

Shashthi (Sanskrit: षष्ठी, romanized: Ṣaṣṭhī) also referred to as Chhath is the sixth day of the lunar fortnight in the Hindu calendar.[1] It is tithi (lunar day) of a paksha, the fourteen-day phase of the moon.

  1. ^ Monier-Williams, Monier (1872). A Sanskrit-English Dictionary: ...with Special Reference to Greek, Latin, Gothic, German, Anglo-saxon... Clarendon. p. 1034.