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  2. Category:Months of the Hindu calendar - Wikipedia

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    Pages in category "Months of the Hindu calendar" The following 14 pages are in this category, out of 14 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. ...

  3. Hindu calendar - Wikipedia

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    The Hindu mathematicians who calculated the best way to adjust the two years, over long periods of a yuga (era, tables calculating 1000s of years), they determined that the best means to intercalate the months is to time the intercalary months on a 19-year cycle, similar to the Metonic cycle used in the Hebrew calendar. This intercalation is ...

  4. Hindu units of time - Wikipedia

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    24 hours (1 day & night: kalpa + pralaya) of Brahma = 8.64 billion solar years; 30 days (1 month) of Brahma = 259.2 billion solar years; 12 months (1 year) of Brahma = 3.1104 trillion solar years; 50 years (parardha) of Brahma = 155.52 trillion solar years; 100 years (lifespan: 2 parardhas) of Brahma = 311.04 trillion solar years

  5. List of Nakshatras - Wikipedia

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    The following list gives the corresponding regions of sky. [1] Months in the modern Indian national calendar-- despite still carrying names that derive from the nakshatras -- do not signify any material correlation. It stands to reason that during the original naming of these months -- whenever that happened -- they were indeed based on the ...

  6. Astronomical basis of the Hindu calendar - Wikipedia

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    A candra māna varṣa or lunar year is made up of 12 consecutive candramāsa. [5] These twelve candramāsa are designated by unique names caitra, vaiśākha, etc. [note 2] In some instances an additional candramāsa, known as an adhikamāsa, is added to synchronise the candra māna varṣa with the solar year or saura māna varṣa.

  7. Samvatsara - Wikipedia

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    Samvatsara (संवत्सर) is a Sanskrit term for a "year" in Vedic literature such as the Rigveda and other ancient texts. [1] In the medieval era literature, a samvatsara refers to the "Jovian year", that is a year based on the relative position of the planet Jupiter, while the solar year is called varsha.

  8. Calendar date - Wikipedia

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    The U.S. military sometimes uses a system, known to them as the "Julian date format", [16] which indicates the year and the actual day out of the 365 days of the year (and thus a designation of the month would not be needed). For example, "11 December 1999" can be written in some contexts as "1999345" or "99345", for the 345th day of 1999. [17]

  9. Nanakshahi calendar - Wikipedia

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    Year 1 is the Year of Guru Nanak's Birth (1469 CE). As an example, 19 December 2024 CE is Nanakshahi 556. Is Based on Gurbani [30] – Month Names are taken from Guru Granth Sahib [31] Contains 5 Months of 31 days followed by 7 Months of 30 days; Leap year every 4 Years in which the last month (Phagun) has an extra day; Approved by Akal Takht ...