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Panchaanga in Kannada Tamil Vakya Panchangam. A panchāngam (Sanskrit: पञ्चाङ्गम्; IAST: pañcāṅgam) is a Hindu calendar and almanac, which follows traditional units of Hindu timekeeping, and presents important dates and their calculations in a tabulated form.
The Tamil calendar (தமிழ் நாட்காட்டி) is a sidereal solar calendar used by the Tamil people of the Indian subcontinent. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It is also used in Puducherry , and by the Tamil population in Sri Lanka , Malaysia , Singapore , Myanmar and Mauritius .
The snake referred to here is the Moon in the Panchangam. The image of the snake contains 27 small circles embedded with it. These circles represent the 27 days the Moon takes to complete one full cycle. The reason Moon is represented as a snake is that, due to the pull and push of various planets, its path is like the path left by a snake on sand.
The solar months are named differently in different regional calendars. While the Malayalam calendar broadly retains the phonetic Sanskrit names, the Bengali and Tamil calendars repurpose the Sanskrit lunar month names (Chaitra, Vaishaka etc.) as follows: The Tamil calendar replaces Mesha, Vrisha etc. with Chithirai, Vaigasi etc.
Panguni Uthiram (Tamil: பங்குனி உத்திரம், romanized: Paṅkuṉi Uttiram) is a Tamil Hindu festival. It is marked on the purnima (full moon) of the month of Panguni (14 March - 13 April). [1]
Cover image of Pambu Panchangam. Here are some examples of Vākyapañcāṅga-s: M. S. Pachiappa Mudaliar, 28 No. Pambu Sudhha Vakya Panchangam; K. N. Narayanamoorthy Arcot Seetharama Iyer Panchangam ; Ramanathapuram Vakiya Tamil Panchangam; N. R. Mahalingam Sivasakthi Panchangam, K. V. Kuppuswamy Hanuman Panchangam,
In the Tamil calendar, it is known as Āadi and is the fifth month of the solar year. In lunar religious calendars, Śrāvaṇa begins on the new moon (according to the amanta tradition) or the full moon (according to the purnimanta tradition) and is the fifth month of the year.
The full moon day of the Tamil month of Thai Thaipusam is a Hindu festival predominantly celebrated by the Tamil community. The name "Thaipusam" is derived from the Tamil month Thai and Pusam, the name of a star associated with the position of the moon during the festival