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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...
- The
Hindu calendar is
based on a
geocentric model of the
Solar System. A
geocentric model describes the
Solar System as seen by an
observer on the surface...
-
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...
- ****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...
- and
lunisolar calendar operates on the
basis of Dolu Utsava.
Hindu calendar dates are
usually prescribed according to a
lunisolar calendar. In
Vedic timekeeping...
- the
Vikrami calendar is a
Hindu calendar historically used in the
Indian subcontinent and
still used in
several states. It is a
solar calendar,
using twelve...
-
Kurdish as well as the
traditional Nepali,
Hindu, ****anese, Korean, Mongolian, Tibetan, and
Vietnamese calendars (in the East
Asian Chinese cultural sphere)...
-
after Diwali. As per the
Hindu Calendar, it
falls on
Shukla Paksha Pratipada in the
Hindu month of Kartik. As per the
Indian Calendar based on
Lunar Cycle...
