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Meaning January: Ndira: The time we harvest hohwa hwe ndira (Ndira type of mushrooms) February: Kukadzi: Female March: Kurume: Male April: Kubvumbi: Month of showers May: Chivabvu: Last green maize June: Chikumi: Halfway through (chikumi) of the 12 months (zigumi) in the context of the 12 months of the year. July: Chikunguru: Chikungurutsa janga.
The months of the Tamil Calendar have great significance and are deeply rooted in the faith of Tamil Hindus. Some months are considered very auspicious, while a few are considered inauspicious as well. Tamil months start and end based on the Sun's shift from one Rāsi to the other, but the names of the months are based on the star on the start ...
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.
Seasons are different times of the year and there are 12 months in the year. Every month has its own special season. The word is derived from the Vedic Sanskrit word Ṛtú, a fixed or appointed time, especially the proper time for sacrifice or ritual in Vedic religion; this in turn comes from the word Ṛta (ऋत), as used in Vedic Sanskrit ...
It falls on the day the moon transits the nakshatram (asterism) of Uttiram (Uttara Phalguni) in the twelfth month Panguni of the Tamil calendar. [2] This coincides with the Hindu calendar month of Phalguna/Chaitra. [3] Panguni is also the last month of the Solar Tamil Calendar year after which the next New Tamil Year begins.
The Tamil Panchangam is based on the same and is generally used in contemporary times to check auspicious times for cultural and religious events. [356] The calendar follows a 60-year cycle. [357] There are 12 months in a year starting with Chithirai when the Sun enters the first Rāśi and the number of days in a month varies between 29 and 32 ...
Shani Dev Jayanti is celebrated on New Moon day i.e. Amavasya of Jyeshtha month.; Ganga Dussehra is celebrated as the avatarana or descent of the Ganges from heaven to earth. . The day of the celebration, Ganga Dashahara, the Dashami (tenth day) of the waxing moon of the Hindu calendar month Jyestha, brings throngs of bathers to the banks of the riv
In Tamil Nadu, the Tamil people worship the sun god during the Tamil month of Thai, after a year of crop farming. The month is known as the harvesting month and people pay respects to the sun on the first day of the Thai month known as Thai pongal, or Pongal, which is a four-day celebration. [10] It is one of the few indigenous forms of worship ...