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Chaitra (Sanskrit: चैत्र, romanized: Caitra) is a month of the Hindu calendar. In the standard Hindu calendar and India's national civil calendar, Chaitra is the first month of the year. It is the last month in the Bengali calendar, where it is called Choitro.
Chaitra Purnima (Sanskrit: चैत्र पुर्णिमा, romanized: Caitra Purṇimā) [1] or Chitra Pournami is a Hindu festival observed on the purnima (full moon) day of the Chaitra month.
Chaitra is the first month of the calendar and begins on or near the March equinox. Chaitra has 30 days and starts on 22 March, except in leap years, when it has 31 days and starts on 21 March. [1] All months other than Chaitra start on fixed dates in the Gregorian calendar.
In practice, solar months are mostly referred as rāśi (not months). 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:
Chaitra (Nepali: चैत्र) also known as Chait (Nepali: चैत) is the last (12th) month in the Bikram Sambat, the official Nepali calendar. This month coincides with March 15 to April 13 of the Western calendar and is 30 days long.
One Month. Ram Navami: 9th day of Chaitra: March–April: Rama: One day: Ram navami and Hanuman jayanti, the birthdays of Shree Ramchandra and Hanuman respectively are also celebrated in the month of Chaitra. Sunthawada/dinkawada, a snack usually eaten by new mothers is the snack of the day for Ram navami. Hanuman Jayanti: 15th day of Chaitra i ...
After winter, Falgun and Chaitra are the moderate months. Fagun and Chait again are the harvesting months. Holi falls in Fagun and Chhath falls in Chait. Chaith is the last month of the Maithili calendar. [4]
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