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The Hindu calendar is lunisolar but most festival dates are specified using the lunar portion of the calendar. A lunar day is uniquely identified by three calendar elements: māsa (lunar month), pakṣa (lunar fortnight) and tithi (lunar day). Furthermore, when specifying the masa, one of two traditions are applicable, viz. amānta ...
Telugu women decorate the entrance of their homes by geometric patterns drawn using colored rice flour, called Muggu. Day 1 – Bhogi; Day 2 – Pedda Panduga/Sankranti, the main festival day; Day 3 – Kanuma; Day 4 – Mukkanuma; Bhogi. Bhogi is the first day of the four-day festival. It is celebrated with a bonfire with logs of wood, other ...
[7] [8] The festival falls on the ninth day of the bright half (Shukla Paksha) of the lunar cycle of Chaitra (March–April), the first month in the Hindu calendar. [9] It is also part of the Chaitra Navaratri festival in spring. [10] Rama Navami is a holiday for government employees in India. [11]
Bhogi (Kannada: ಭೋಗಿ, Telugu: భోగి, Tamil: போகி) is the first day of the four-day Pongal festival. It falls on last day of Agrahāyaṇa or Mārgaśīrṣa month of Hindu Solar Calendar, which is 13 January by the Gregorian calendar. It is the day before Makar Sankranti, celebrated widely in Andhra Pradesh, Telangana ...
Ugadi or Yugadi, also known as Samvatsarādi (meaning "beginning of the year"), is New Year's Day according to the Hindu calendar and is celebrated in the Indian states of Andhra Pradesh, Telangana and Karnataka. [1][2] The cycle actually consists of 60 years, each year individually named. The first day of each year is called 'Ugadi'.
The Malayalam Calendar, or the Kollam Era (Malayalam: കൊല്ലവർഷം, romanized:Kollavaṟṣaṁ), is a sidereal solar calendar used in Kerala. The origin of the calendar has been dated to 825 CE, commemorating the establishment of Kollam. [ 1 ][ 2 ][ 3 ] There are many theories regarding the origin of the era, but according to ...
Just like months, the Hindu calendar has two measures of a day, one based on the lunar movement and the other on solar. The solar day or civil day, called divasa (दिवस), has been what most Hindus traditionally use, is easy and empirical to observe, with or without a clock, and it is defined as the period from one sunrise to another.
Bathukamma is a hindu flower-festival celebrated by the women of Telangana and some parts of Andhra Pradesh. [1] [2] [3] Every year this festival is celebrated as per the Sathavahana calendar for nine days starting on Pitru Amavasya, which usually coincides with the months September–October of the Gregorian calendar.