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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 or Chait is also the last month in the Nepali calendar (the Vikram Samvat), where it commences in mid-March. Chittirai is the first month in the Tamil calendar.
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 (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. Important Events during this month: March 26: Chait 12, Chaite Dashain; March 27: Chait 13, Ram Nawami
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 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. The months in the first half of the year all average out to having 31 days, to take into account the slower movement of the sun across the ecliptic at ...
It is a tropical solar Hindu calendar in which the year begins on the first day of Baishakh month i.e. Mesh Sankranti. Every year, this day falls on 13/14 April of the Gregorian Calendar Every year, this day falls on 13/14 April of the Gregorian Calendar
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It is celebrated in and around Maharashtra, Goa & Damaon at the start of Chaitra, the first month of the lunisolar Hindu calendar. The festival is characterised by colourful floor decorations called rangoli , a special gudi dvaja ; which is a saari or dhoti or other piece of cloth garlanded with flowers, mango & neem leaves; a sugar crystal ...