Calendar event marking the start of Daksha Savarni Manvantara period

Daksha Savarni Manvadi is a Manvadi Tithi — one of the fourteen days that mark the beginning of a Manvantara, the vast age ruled by a Manu, the progenitor and lawgiver of humankind. Fourteen Manus reign within a single day of Brahma; we live in the seventh, that of Vaivasvata Manu, and Daksha Savarni, the ninth Manu, is reckoned among those still to come. The Matsya Purana and dharma texts list the Manvadi tithis and declare that shraddha offered on them satisfies the ancestors for as long as two thousand years, and that charity given on them is inexhaustible. Ashwin Shukla Navami is the Manvadi of Daksha Savarni, and this year it falls on Maha Navami of Sharad Navratri, adding the merit of ancestral rites to a day already filled with the worship of the Goddess. It is a punya kaal — a window of heightened spiritual potency — rather than a festival of celebration, observed quietly with tarpan to the departed and gifts to the deserving. The Panchang lists the Manvadi tithis alongside the Yugadi tithis as the most meritorious days for ancestral and charitable rites.

No separate fast; many are keeping the Navratri fast on this day.