Dhanu Saṅkrānti is the Sun’s ingress into Dhanu — Odisha’s winter pithā-pāyasa morning. Makara Saṅkrānti is the next solar ingress, a different page. On the Panchang the civil date follows dhanu Saṅkrānti on the local sunrise civil day. Because tithi and nakṣatra boundaries are reckoned from local sunrise, the same observance can fall a day earlier or later in another city. Before sunrise many Odia kitchens offer pithā and pāyasa to the Sun as he enters Dhanu. Temple kitchens at Puri change the bhoga calendar. Makara Saṅkrānti is the next rāśi. Dhanu is this page only. Dates below for 2026 are computed from sunrise at your selected place. The same vrata can fall on an adjacent civil day in another city.
