Wara / Wewaran – Bali Calendar

Wara is name of the day in Bali calendar. There are 10 groups of wara and each wara contain from only 1 day to 10 days. Length of one cycle depends on how many days in a group, e.g. Panca Wara contains 5 days as literally, the meaning of panca is 5 and wara is day. First day is Umanis, followed by Pahing, Pon, Wage and the last one is Kliwon.  We call this 1 cycle. The second cycle back/start  again from Umanis and to Kliwon, and so on etc.

Names of Wewaran:

Eka Wara (cycle of 1 day: luang)

Dwi Wara (cycle of 2 days: menga, pepet)

Tri Wara (cycle of 3 days: pasah, beteng, kajeng)

Catur Wara  (cycle of 4 days: sri, laba, jaya, menala)

Panca Wara (cycle of 5 days: umanis, pahing, pon, wage, kliwon)

Sad Wara (cycle of 6 days: tungleh, aryang, tulukung, paniron, was, maulu)

Sapta Wara  (cycle of 7 days: redite, soma, anggara, buda, wrespati, sukra, saniscara)

Asta Wara  (cycle of 8 days: sri, indra, guru, yama, ludra, brahma, kala, uma)

Sanga Wara  (cycle of 9 days: dangu, jangur, gigis, nohan, ogan, erangan, urungan, tulus, dadi)

Dasa Wara  (cycle of 10 days: pandita, pati, suka, duka, sri, manah, manusia, dewa, raja, raksasa)

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