Vivah Panchami 2026 Date
Vivah Panchami 2026 is on Monday, 14 December 2026, on Panchami tithi.
Dates are for India (IST). Tithi timings for your city are on the Vivah Panchami page.
About Vivah Panchami
Margashirsha Shukla Panchami — the day Rama snapped Shiva's bow at King Janaka's swayamvara in Mithila and won Sita's hand. Janakpur Dham in Nepal is the heart of the festival, with temple idols dressed as bride and groom and an evening re-enactment of the wedding.
The story comes from the Balakanda of Valmiki's Ramayana and Tulsidas's Ramcharitmanas: King Janaka set a challenge that whoever could string Shiva's bow, the Pinaka, would marry his daughter Sita. Rama not only lifted it but broke it while stringing. At Janakpur's Janaki Mandir — believed to mark Sita's birthplace — celebrations stretch about a week. Pilgrims bathe in the local Mithilanchal tanks of Dhanushsagar, Gangasagar and Argaza before the temple wedding in the evening. One quiet detail: many families in Mithila avoid fixing their own weddings on this date. Rama and Sita's marriage, though divine, ended in exile and separation — so priests are usually consulted before treating the tithi as auspicious for a human bride.
