Laying between two separate places, Alapppuzha and Kollam, which are connected through the national highway 66, this city of Haripad, of the Alapppuzha district, of the state Kerala is an important place. Nangiarkulangara is there in the south, Karuvatta, Pallippad and Veeyapuram in the north, and Kumarapuram in the west of the city. Being close to the Arabian Sea, Haripad is properly associated with the places like Mavelikara and Thrikunnapuzha. However, the cartographical analysis will show the coordinate of the place as 9°180N 76°280E and the latitude and longitude as 9°180N and Longitude: 76°280E, respectively.
Hinduism, Muslimism and Christianism are three most followed religion in Haripad, with 83.71%, 8.12% and 7.95% of the total population respectively. According to the census of 2011, there are zero number of Sikh, Jain and other religion people and only one male Buddhist person, which indicates those religions are minority in Haripad. There are 43 people who did not have any specified religion.
About the Panchang
The Panchang (Panjika) is the Hindu almanac. It is used to choose auspicious times (shubh muhurat) for important events
— marriage, naming a baby, starting a business or entering a new home — and to identify inauspicious periods
that are best avoided. Festivals and pujas are also scheduled by it: Lakshmi Puja falls on Purnima tithi, for example,
and Durga Puja on Saptami.
The name means “five limbs”: Tithi, Vara (weekday), Nakshatra,
Yoga and Karana. This page calculates them for the chosen city and date, together with
sunrise, sunset and the Moon's phase. Timings depend on the location, so they differ from city to city.
Tithi and Paksha
A tithi is the time it takes for the Moon to move 12° ahead of the Sun, so there are 30 tithis in a lunar month:
Pratipada, Dwitiya, Tritiya, Chaturthi, Panchami, Shashthi, Saptami, Ashtami, Navami, Dashami, Ekadashi, Dwadashi,
Trayodashi, Chaturdashi and Purnima in the bright half (Shukla Paksha), and the same fifteen ending in Amavasya in the
dark half (Krishna Paksha).
Karana and Yoga
Each tithi has two karanas: the movable Bava, Balava, Kaulava, Taitila, Gara, Vanija and Vishti (Bhadra), and the fixed
Shakuni, Chatushpada, Naga and Kimstughna. There are 27 yogas, found by adding the longitudes of the Sun and Moon and
dividing by 13°20′: Vishkambha, Priti, Ayushman, Saubhagya, Shobhana, Atiganda, Sukarma, Dhriti, Shoola,
Ganda, Vriddhi, Dhruva, Vyaghata, Harshana, Vajra, Siddhi, Vyatipata, Variyana, Parigha, Shiva, Siddha, Sadhya, Shubha,
Shukla, Brahma, Indra and Vaidhriti.
Before starting a journey or anything important, prefer the auspicious times above and avoid Rahu Kaal,
Yamaganda, Gulika Kaal, Dur Muhurta and Mrityu periods.