Makara (month)

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Makara is a month in the

Capricorn, and overlaps with about the later half of January and approximately early half of February in the Gregorian calendar.[1]

In Vedic texts, the Makara month is called Sahasya (IAST: Sahasya), but in these ancient texts it has no zodiacal associations.

Makara Sankranti festival, and periodically the Kumbh Mela.[6]

The Makara month is called Tai in the Tamil Hindu calendar.[1] The ancient and medieval era Sanskrit texts of India vary in their calculations about the duration of Makara, just like they do with other months. For example, the Surya Siddhanta calculates the duration of Vrschika to be 29 days, 10 hours, 45 minutes and 12 seconds.[5] In contrast, the Arya Siddhanta calculates the duration of the Vrschika month to be 29 days, 10 hours, 57 minutes and 35 seconds.[5]

Makara (crocodile or half animal-half fish being) is also an astrological sign in Indian horoscope systems, corresponding to Capricorn (astrology).[7]

Makara is also the fourth month in the Darian calendar for Mars, when the Sun the Sun traverses the eastern sector of the constellation Capricornus as seen from Mars.

References

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  2. ^ a b Robert Sewell; Śaṅkara Bālakr̥shṇa Dīkshita (1896). The Indian Calendar. S. Sonnenschein & Company. pp. 5–11, 23–29.
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  5. ^ a b c Robert Sewell; Śaṅkara Bālakr̥shṇa Dīkshita (1896). The Indian Calendar. S. Sonnenschein & Company. pp. 10–11.
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  7. ISBN 978-81-208-1397-7
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