hindu-devotional-texts/src/navratri/colours.ts

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import type { Bilingual } from '../types.js'
import type { NavratriColour } from './types.js'

// The canonical Navratri colour cycle.
//
// Each colour is bound to a WEEKDAY, not to a Navadurga form. This is the
// only colour data the library stores: a consumer computes the colour of any
// given Navratri day by taking the weekday that day falls on (from a
// panchang) and looking it up here. The per-day colour therefore changes
// every year and is never hardcoded against a form. See `navratriColourRule`.
//
// `weekday` uses the JavaScript `Date.getDay()` order: 0 = Sunday … 6 = Saturday.
export const navratriColourCycle: readonly NavratriColour[] = [
  { weekday: 0, colour: { en: 'Orange', hi: 'नारंगी' } },
  { weekday: 1, colour: { en: 'White', hi: 'श्वेत' } },
  { weekday: 2, colour: { en: 'Red', hi: 'लाल' } },
  { weekday: 3, colour: { en: 'Royal Blue', hi: 'गहरा नीला' } },
  { weekday: 4, colour: { en: 'Yellow', hi: 'पीला' } },
  { weekday: 5, colour: { en: 'Green', hi: 'हरा' } },
  { weekday: 6, colour: { en: 'Grey', hi: 'धूसर' } },
]

// The rule that governs the colour cycle — surfaced to the reader so the
// computed colours are understood, and so the common myth is not repeated.
export const navratriColourRule: Bilingual = {
  en: 'The colour worn and offered on each day of Navratri follows the weekday that day falls on — not the Navadurga form worshipped. Day one takes the colour of the weekday on which Navratri begins, and the following days continue through the weekday cycle; because Navratri runs nine days, the colours of the first two weekdays recur on days eight and nine. The sequence therefore differs every year. The fixed "yellow on day one, green on day two" lists circulated online are a modern newspaper invention and are not part of the tradition.',
  hi: 'नवरात्रि के प्रत्येक दिन धारण एवं अर्पित किया जानेवाला रंग उस दिन के वार के अनुसार होता है — उस दिन पूजित नवदुर्गा स्वरूप के अनुसार नहीं। प्रथम दिन उस वार का रंग होता है जिस दिन नवरात्रि आरम्भ होती है, एवं आगे के दिन वार-चक्र के अनुसार चलते हैं; नौ दिनों के कारण प्रथम दो वारों के रंग आठवें एवं नवें दिन पुनः आते हैं। अतः यह क्रम प्रति वर्ष भिन्न होता है। ऑनलाइन प्रचलित "प्रथम दिन पीला, दूसरे दिन हरा" जैसी निश्चित सूचियाँ एक आधुनिक समाचार-पत्र की रचना हैं — परम्परा का अंग नहीं।',
}