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{{Short description|Seventh day of the lunar fortnight in the Hindu calendar}}'''Saptami''' ({{Langx|sa|सप्तमी|translit=Saptamī}}) is the seventh day ([[tithi]]) of the fortnight (paksha) in the [[Hindu calendar|Hindu lunar calendar]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Monier-Williams |first=Sir Monier |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FzRDAQAAMAAJ&dq=saptami+seventh+day&pg=PA1065 |title=A Sanskṛit-English Dictionary Etymologically and Philologically Arranged: With Special Reference to Greek, Latin, Gothic, German, Anglo-Saxon, and Other Cognate Indo-European Languages |date=1872 |publisher=Clarendon Press |pages=1065 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last=Rao |first=S. Balachandra |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PGXgssv08PgC&dq=saptami+lunar+month&pg=PA65 |title=Indian Astronomy: An Introduction |date=2000 |publisher=Universities Press |isbn=978-81-7371-205-0 |pages=65 |language=en}}</ref>

==Occasions ==
* [[Ratha Saptami]]: [[Surya]] is usually worshiped on this occasion. Usually, Rathasapthami begins in households with a purification bath by holding a few bilva leaves on one's head while bathing and chanting a verse that is supposed to invoke the benevolence of the deity in all that one takes up the rest of the year. It also involves doing a puja with the ritual 'Naivedyam', flowers and fruits.
* Navaratri: The seventh Day of the Navaratri Kalaratri Puja takes place.
* The birthday of [[Jalaram Bapa]] falls on Saptami [[Shukla paksha]] of [[Kartika (month)|Kartika]] and is celebrated as [[Jalaram Jayanti]].

==References==
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