Sunday, November 3, 2013

How to calculate the exact Sahastra Chandra Darshan सहस्त्रचंद्रदर्शन date?

Recently we had the pleasure of celebrating the “Sahastra Chandra Darshan” सहस्त्रचंद्रदर्शन (SCD) of our uncle whom we lovingly call “Bhausaheb”. When 3M uploaded this image on Facebook, quite a few friends asked “How do you calculate the exact date for this ceremony?”. A Google search will tell you that it is celebrated sometime after a person's 80th birthday… but that’s not really helpful!

First let us understand what SCD is all about! In ancient India, life expectancy of an individual was about 30 years. Hence anybody who crosses the age of 60 years was considered “Deerghayu” – person with longevity! So at each stage of life starting from the 60th year, you have celebrations to cheer his/ her long life. One of these is SCD - a ceremony to celebrate the 1000th full moon in a person’s life. Gautam Buddha is supposed to have lived up to his 1000th full moon. Recently, this ceremony got publicity due to felicitations of Atal BihariVajpayee (2005), Satya Sai Baba (2008) & Lata Mangeshkar (2010)!

Calculating the exact date of a person’s SCD is now really easy thanks to good ol’ MS Excel. We know that a lunar month is made of 29.53 days. This means a person will complete 1000 months of his life in 29530 days. Let’s see how Bhausaheb’s SCD was calculated by 3M. On an MS Excel sheet type out the date “27-Dec-32” in a cell. In the cell right next to it type out “29530”. Add both these cells to get the date on which Bhausaheb completes 1000 months – “2-Nov-13”. Mind you, this is NOT the SCD date! Now refer any panchang like Date to find the Poornima (Full moon day) just before “2-Nov-13”. So the Sahastra Chandra Darshan in this case was on 17th Oct 2013 which happened to be Kojagiri Poornima!

36 comments:

Anonymous said...

Great Article.. Thank you

Unknown said...

good informative tnx

Dr Shantanu Abhyankar said...
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Dr Shantanu Abhyankar said...

Thanks, very useful information.

VIJAY said...

Good explanation

DGS said...

A very good method to know the scd date

DGS said...

A very good method to know the scd date

Anonymous said...

Great article. In Bharat, people used to live long life before the British rule where the missionries created. 100 years was avg age of person. Exceptions like Changdev, 1400 years. My grand mother was 97 and grand father was 80+. Villages, certainly better. 100 is prescribed age by vedic texts. life was all about celebrations, this darshan, then becoming great grand father was also considered auspisious. Jai Shriram..

Arvind Raje said...

This set of calculation is I simplicitor.

It must include the number of TOTAL LUNAR ECLIPSES one goes through at the place of his residence
During his life of 80 years. Such data is available on Google search.

Generally it is THREE to FOUR times and not more.



Arvind Raje

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Unknown said...

Please inform the dates.of 1000 full moons .for the following dates of birth.


..........06-04-1934. And. 12-06-1940

"............ tataraobharathi@gmail.com

...... I could not get through excel...)

Yateen Vishnu Joshi said...

for 06-04-1934 - it is full moon before 10-feb-2015, already over.
For 12-06-1940, it is full moon before 18-apr-2021

n gajeshwar i want 1000full moon for date 14_03_1938 said...

Pl inform 1000 full moon for following date 14_03_1938

Kamalakar Agashe said...

For 14/03/1938 it will be on 22/12/2018

Unknown said...

Please inform sahastra chandra for DOB
2/5/1936
Thanks.

Unknown said...

Can you please tell me for the date 15.03.1937

Unknown said...

Excellent explanation of the ceremony ! Kudos to you for enriching the knowledge of all when such landmark events are getting reinvented.

Unknown said...
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Unknown said...

Please inform for 26-08-1937

Unknown said...

Please inform SCD for DOB 19/05/1937
Thanks.

Chitra said...

Can someone celebrate even 1000moons are over? Dob is 14.2.1934.
I saw some have celebrated at 83rd birthday.
If yes please guide how and which day?

Anonymous said...

Anybody to answer to Chitra's qurstion?

Anonymous said...

08-03-1938 excel gives 12-Jan-19
so 6th Jan 2019 is the full moon
is it right?
please guide
and what are the customs to be followed out?
what homas, what poojas, what function to be done?
should the homas be done in thirukadiyur or at home or nearby temple
please advise

Unknown said...

What's shastra?? We should not get word to ward SCD??? Like Upanayan sanskar. If you go word meeanim "up mean small and nayan mean Dole. Is is?? It's a part of 16 Sanskar which is going to perform from Garbhadhan to Antya Sanskar. Please understand.if you know better than above explaination please revert back on my direct cell no 09822662009.

Unknown said...

DOB 13/12/1938 EXPECTED DATE

anuradha said...

Thanks for the information.I will be celebrating this ceremony in coming years in family. So it's really good for me.

Dr. Ganji said...

Respected Guruji,
My Mother only alive now and she is 81+ years. We wish to celebrate SCD, is it allowed.

Regards
Dr. Ganji

Unknown said...

Pl inform me the date of SCD for the 13.10.1939

Unknown said...

Beautiful analysis...when can I celebrate my father's SCD, who is born on 14th July 1939??.
Thank you very much.

Ravi said...

Good information. Thanks.

Unknown said...

My father dob is 28/11/1939 when is his scd

Ravindra Kathale said...

His CSD will be on the pournia just before 23.09.1920 which will be on the 1st of November. My best regards to your father.

Unknown said...

The correct word, in Marathi, for 'thousand' is Sahasra (सहस्र) and not Sahastra (सहस्त्र).

Unknown said...

I want full pon date for date of birth 13-9-1942

Anonymous said...

Excel file not found

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