Ashwini - the moon of thanksgiving

Cherukunnam is an Annapoorna Kshetra in Kerala.

Devotees and visitors are fed in the temple.

And from a branch of a tree close to the temple, a bag of cooked rice is hung - every night.

So, even thieves, and anti-social elements can satiate their hunger - after dark.

That no one be tormented by hunger, near this shrine - is the intent.

- Shri Chandrashekarendra Saraswati, Kanchi.

Waxing gibbous at Bhadrapada

Chittiraiyil Onam mudar seer Aani Uthiramaam
sathu dhanu Adiraiyum saarwagum 
Buddhi walar Maasi Ari Kanni maruvu chaturdashi min 
reesarabisheka dinamam
iwai Nakshtiram udayathilum tithi - maalaiyilumam.

- Shri Natarajar Abisheka Wenbaa

At Shrawana in the Spican month; at Uttara Bhadrapada in the month of Anusha
In the arching bow at Aardra
In the months of Aquarius, Lion and Virgin at the fourteenth gibbous of waxing intelligence
Are six days of Abisheka rituals
Sidereal days are dawn rituals; dusk rituals on waxing moon nights.

 - Shri Nataraja anointment quatraine