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  2. Tamil calendar - Wikipedia

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    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 .

  3. Vākyapañcāṅga - Wikipedia

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    To illustrate, Vākyapañcāṅga-s predicted that a solar eclipse would occur on Avani 6 in 1871, but there was no eclipse anywhere on the said date. In spite of the inaccuracies, there are large sections of the population who adhere to Vākyapañcāṅga -s to determine the auspicious times for conducting religious rites and festivals.

  4. Panchangam - Wikipedia

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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.

  5. Puthandu - Wikipedia

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    'new year'), also known as Tamil New Year, is the first day of year on the Tamil calendar that is traditionally celebrated as a festival by Tamils. The festival date is set with the solar cycle of the solar Hindu calendar, as the first day of the month of Chittirai. It falls on or about 14 April every year on the Gregorian calendar. [1]

  6. Hindu calendar - Wikipedia

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    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.

  7. Malayalam calendar - Wikipedia

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    Many events in Kerala are related to the dates in the Malayalam calendar. The agricultural activities of Kerala are centred on the seasons. The southwest monsoon which starts around 1 June is known as Edavappathi, meaning mid of month Edavam. The northeast monsoon which starts during mid October is called thulavarsham (rain in the month of thulam).

  8. List of Nakshatras - Wikipedia

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    It stands to reason that during the original naming of these months—whenever that happened—they were indeed based on the nakshatras that coincided with them in some manner. The modern Indian national calendar is a solar calendar, much like the Gregorian calendar wherein solstices and equinoxes fall on the same date(s) every year.

  9. Pambu Panchangam - Wikipedia

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    Pambu Panchangam is the most popular Tamil almanac among Tamil speaking people worldwide. [3] [4] ... This page was last edited on 19 May 2024, at 10:05 (UTC).