Ashvin (month)
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Ashvin or Ashwin or Ashwan (
It overlaps with September and October[1] of the Gregorian calendar and is the month in which Diwali, the festival of lights, is celebrated according to the amanta tradition (Diwali falls in Kartika according to the purnimanta tradition). In lunar religious calendars, Ashvin begins on the new moon or the full moon around the time of the September equinox.
Etymology
Festivals
Several major Hindu holidays take place in Ashvin. Those are as follows:
- Navaratri (1-9 lunar Ashvin)
- Durga Puja (6-10 lunar Ashvin)
- Saraswati Puja in South India(8-10 lunar Ashvin)
- Dussehra(10 lunar Ashvin), the last day of Navaratri
- Kojagiri Poornima(15 lunar Ashvin)
- Naraka Chaturdasi (29 lunar Ashvin) and Lakshmi Puja(30 lunar Ashvin)
- Kali Puja (new moon of lunar Ashvin), which is held as per the lunar calendar, usually falls in this month.
Regional variation
According to the latest revised calendar of Bangladesh, Ashwin now consists of 31 days instead of 30 days. This revision went into effect on 16 October 2019.
Ashwin is known as aipasi (ஐப்பசி) in Tamil and begins when the sun enters Libra in October.
It's also called kunwaar (कुँवार) month in eastern Uttar Pradesh & western Bihar state.
See also
- Astronomical basis of the Hindu calendar
- Hindu astronomy
- Hindu units of measurement
- List of most popular given names
- Tishrei
References
- ISBN 0-7808-0982-3
- ^ Jah, J.C (1976). The Hindu Festival of Divali in the Caribbean. Mona, Jamaica: Routledge. p. 53.