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Hindu calendar
Hindoo Hin"doo, or Hindu calendar Hindu, calendar .
A lunisolar calendar of India, according to which the year is
divided into twelve months, with an extra month inserted
after every month in which two new moons occur (once in three
years).
Note: The intercalary month has the name of the one which
precedes it. The year usually commences about April 11.
The months are follows: Baisakh . . . . . . . . . .
April-May Jeth . . . . . . . . . . . . . May-June Asarh
. . . . . . . . . . . . June-July Sawan (Sarawan) . . .
. . . . July-Aug. Bhadon . . . . . . . . . . .
Aug.-Sept. Asin (Kuar). . . . . . . . . . Sept.-Oct.
Katik (Kartik) . . . . . . . . Oct.-Nov. Aghan . . . .
. . . . . . . . Nov.-Dec. Pus . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Dec.-Jan. Magh . . . . . . . . . . . . . Jan.-Feb.
Phagun (Phalgun) . . . . . . . Feb.-March Chait . . . .
. . . . . . . . March-April
Meaning of Hindu calendar from wikipedia
- The
Hindu calendar, also
called Panchanga (Sanskrit: पञ्चाङ्ग), is one of
various lunisolar calendars that are
traditionally used in the
Indian subcontinent...
-
month of the
Hindu calendar,
which falls in
August and
September of the
Gregorian calendar. In India's
national civil calendar (Shaka
calendar),
Bhadra is...
-
solar and
lunisolar calendar operates based on Dolu Utsava.
Hindu calendar dates are
usually prescribed according to a
lunisolar calendar. In
Vedic timekeeping...
- ****enistic
period they gave rise to the
ancient Roman calendar and to
various Hindu calendars.
Calendars in
antiquity were lunisolar,
depending on the introduction...
- and this is
called the
Tamil calendar (though
Tamil calendar uses
month names like in
Hindu Calendar) and
Malayalam calendar and
these have
origins in the...
-
Gregorian calendar largely used for
official purposes both
within and
outside India. The
Tamil calendar is
based on the
classical Hindu solar calendar also...
-
sidereal zodiac normally used with the
Hindu and
Buddhist calendars.
Chaitra is the
first month of the
calendar and
begins on or near the
March equinox...
-
distinguishes the
groupings Egyptian calendars (Ancient Egypt),
Babylonian calendars (Ancient Mesopotamia),
Indian calendars (
Hindu and
Buddhist traditions of the...
-
Kurdish as well as the
traditional Nepali,
Hindu, ****anese, Korean, Mongolian, Tibetan, and
Vietnamese calendars (in the East
Asian Chinese cultural sphere)...
- ****yrian and
Elamite calendars. The
Vikram Samvat has been used by
Hindus and Sikhs. One of
several regional Hindu calendars in use on the
Indian subcontinent...
