A daily sheet calendar and panchangam, printed the way it's always been — thithi, nakshatram, rahu kalam and the day's muhurtham on one bold page, handed down from one generation's wall to the next.
Kumara Vikadan grew out of Kanchipuram's long tradition of panchangam publishing — where a calendar isn't just dates, it's the household's daily reference for what the day is good for.
The name first appears in Kanchipuram (then "Conjeeveram") publishing records as a periodical — Kumara Vikadan, printed by D. K. Sami, running to four illustrated volumes. It's catalogued today in the Roja Muthiah Research Library.
That same year, up the road in Madras, Ananda Vikatan was going weekly and becoming the country's biggest Tamil magazine. "Vikatan/Vikadan" — witty, discerning — was the name every ambitious Tamil periodical of the decade wanted; Kanchipuram had its own.
Over the following decades the Kanchipuram press's output narrowed from general periodical to what its readers actually kept coming back for each year: the panchangam and daily calendar page — a shift many small-town Tamil presses of the era made as the reading public's habits changed.
The calendar line expanded into deity-themed editions — Perumal–Padmavathy Thaayar, Annamalayar–Unnamalayamman, and Murugar — so households could choose the cover matched to their own kuladeivam.
Printed alongside the sister Kumaran Calendar Mfg. Co. range, with deity editions and a standalone Drik Kanitha Panchangam book, calculated on modern Drik Ganitham and shipped to Tamil households across India and abroad.
"We've had this calendar since my grandmother's time. We've never switched to another. Every year after my marriage, my father still posts it abroad for me."
— A long-time reader, on the calendar's place in the home
That's the calendar's real job: not just to mark a date, but to sit on the wall as the one page the whole family checks before they leave the house — today's thithi, the nakshatram, and the hour to avoid starting anything new.
It's why the sheet stays deliberately plain: bold ink, a full page per day, and nothing that gets in the way of reading it at a glance.
Note: the 1933 record above is a documented publishing history, not a claimed unbroken company lineage — swap in your own founding story here if it differs.
The Kumara Vikadan editions carry the same daily panchangam. The difference is the cover, and which deity looks back at you from above the sheet.
The original typographic cover. Big date numerals, Tamil date, panchangam, rahu kalam and yamagandam on every sheet. The cover still carries its old magazine-style blurb promising humour, poems and stories.
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From Kumaran Calendar Mfg. Co., "The Home for Calendars". A plain English-date calendar with a large day numeral, made for desks, shops and offices.
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Padmavathi Thaayar and Perumal under golden arches above the daily sheet. For the household that starts the day at the puja wall as much as the calendar.
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For families whose devotion centres on Thiruvannamalai. The same daily panchangam, under Annamalaiyar and Unnamalai Amman.
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The daily sheet under Lord Murugan, for homes that mark their mornings with a look at the Kadavul before anything else.
Order nowA bound 15-month panchangam: thithi, nakshatram, yogam and karnam in minute:second precision, for the reader who wants more than the wall sheet gives.
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