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The Hindu calendar is lunisolar but most festival dates are specified using the lunar portion of the calendar. A lunar day is uniquely identified by three calendar elements: māsa (lunar month), pakṣa (lunar fortnight) and tithi (lunar day). Furthermore, when specifying the masa, one of two traditions are applicable, viz. amānta ...
Just like months, the Hindu calendar has two measures of a day, one based on the lunar movement and the other on solar. The solar day or civil day, called divasa (दिवस), has been what most Hindus traditionally use, is easy and empirical to observe, with or without a clock, and it is defined as the period from one sunrise to another.
Chaitra Navaratri. Chaitra Navaratri, also called Vasantha Navaratri, is the second most celebrated Navaratri, named after vasanta which means spring. It is observed during the lunar month of Chaitra (March–April). The festival is devoted to goddess Durga, whose nine forms are worshipped on nine days.
Chaitra ( Sanskrit: चैत्र, romanized : Caitra) is a month of the Hindu calendar . In the standard Hindu calendar and India's national civil calendar, Chaitra is the first month of the year. It is the last month in the Bengali calendar, where it is called Choitro. Chaitra or Chait is also the last month in the Nepali calendar (the ...
Ashura is an Aramaic word meaning 'tenth'. [2] It may have also been derived from the Syriac words asiroya or asora. [3] It shares the same root as the Hebrew word 'āsōr. [4] In Arabic, Ashura refers to the tenth day of Muharram, the first month of the Islamic calendar, a month in which fighting has been forbidden since before the advent of ...
There are three popular meanings of panchāngam: In Vedic astrology, meaning "five attributes" of the day. They are: Tithi - Ending Moment (EM) of elongation of the Moon, the lunar day, the angular relationship between Sun and Moon ( Apparent Moon minus Apparent Sun). One Tithi equals 12 degree difference between Moon and Sun.
Ekadashi ( Sanskrit: एकादशी, romanized : Ēkādaśī, lit. 'The eleventh day') is the eleventh lunar day ( tithi) of the waxing ( Shukla Pakṣa) and waning ( Kṛṣṇa Pakṣa) lunar cycles in a Vedic calendar month. [ 1] Ekadashi is popularly observed within Vaishnavism one of the major paths within Sanatan Dharma. Followers ...
Ugadi or Yugadi, also known as Samvatsarādi (meaning "beginning of the year"), is New Year's Day according to the Hindu calendar and is celebrated in the Indian states of Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Karnataka. [ 1][ 2] The cycle actually consists of 60 years, each year individually named. The first day of each year is called 'Ugadi'.