Shashthi (day)
Sixth day of the lunar fortnight in the Hindu calendar / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
For the Hindu goddess, see Shashti (goddess).
Shashthi (Sanskrit: षष्ठी, romanized: Ṣaṣṭhī) also referred to as Chhath is the sixth day of the lunar fortnight in the Hindu calendar.[1] It is tithi (lunar day) of a paksha, the fourteen-day phase of the moon.