Yugadya 2012 date

Yugadya 2012 date is 14 February.Yugadya is hindu festival celebrated with fervour and enthusiasm which falls on the thirtieth Magha, fifteenth day, light half, or full moon of Magha. This festival also held in additional honour as the anniversary of the commencement of the Kalyug, or present age of the world, the age of impurity.

According to some authorities the anniversaries of the Yugas occur not on the days of opposition, or full moon, but on those of conjunction or new moon, and this is more consonant to the character of the rites principally practised, as bathing and libations of water and sesamum to the Dii Maines. Thus the Vishnu Purana observes, the fifteenth of Magha in the dark fortnight is one of the days called by ancient sages the anniversaries of the first day of a Yuga or Age, and are esteemed most sacred; on these days water mixed with sesamum seeds should be regularly presented to the progenitors of mankind; and Kalpa Druma. Again, the Pitris are described as saying, “After having received satisfaction for a twelve month, we shall further derive it from libations offered by our descendants at some holy place at the end of the dark fortnight of Magha."