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Festivals and vrat 5
- Sankranti Monthly solar ingress into a new sidereal rashi.
- Makar Sankranti The Sun enters sidereal Makara (Capricorn); a major day of snana, daan and Surya worship.
- Mesha Sankranti The Sun enters sidereal Mesha (a Vishuva Sankranti): the day of the Mesha Sankranti Punya Kaal for bathing, charity and Surya worship. The regional New Year festivals of this Sankranti (Vaisakhi, Vishu, Puthandu) fix their days by their own rules and can fall a day apart from it.
- Vaisakhi (Baisakhi) Punjabi New Year and harvest festival on 1 Vaisakh, the Mesha Sankranti; for Sikhs also Khalsa Sajna Divas, the founding of the Khalsa (1699).
- Vishu Kerala festival at the first dawn after the Sun enters sidereal Mesha, when the Vishukkani is viewed: Medam 1 of the Malayalam solar calendar, or Medam 2 when the Sankranti falls after sunrise but before 3/5 of the daytime.
Mantra & Bhakti 7
- Makar Sankranti Puja Vidhi: Surya Arghya, Til-Gud and Daan A simple home guide to Makar Sankranti — holy bath, arghya to Surya, til-gud and khichdi, charity, and kite flying without harmful manja.
- Gayatri Mantra The Savitri or Gayatri mantra of the Rigveda (3.62.10), a prayer to Savitr for an illumined intellect.
- Surya Namaskar Mantras (twelve names of Surya) The twelve names of Surya recited one with each round of Surya Namaskar.
- Ehi Surya Sahasramsho (arghya verse) A verse recited while offering water (arghya) to the rising Sun.
- Om Ghrini Suryaya Namah A popular Surya mantra, often chanted while offering arghya to the rising Sun.
- Surya Ashtakam Eight verses to the Sun, spoken by Samba, each ending "I bow to that Sun".
- Shri Surya Chalisa Forty chaupais to the Sun with his twelve names and a protective armour of his forms over the body.