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18:11, 14 February 2008 (UTC)
This page only relates to the Hindu religious calendar. It would be good if there were also pages about the Indian secular calendars, especially Saka and Vikrama Samvat. - Posted by IP 195.93.21.5
Samvat is a common term using in the context of Indian history. Conversion from a samvat (there are several, and often with different computation methods) to common era can result in an error of one year (perhaps more). Thus a separate page on the term samvat is needed to address different samvats and variation in computation.
There is a significant history (and controversy) behind Vikram and Shaka Samvats, that needs to be added to the samvat page sometime. The Sikhs have adapted a new samvat recently, after considerable disagreement for a long time. - Malaiya
Well I flatter myself that I've done some serious cleaning-up here - edited articles this afternoon (in chronological order):
I've
I hope Joe and the other mages here approve. - Jamadagni 11:54, 2 December 2005 (UTC)
This article says epoch at 3102BCE 23rd jan while Kali Yuga says 3102BCE 18th Feb. Which one is correct-- nids (♂) 00:01, 6 September 2006 (UTC)
Is this relation of Ritus to lunisolar months absolute? Will they change with relation to english year like sun's makar sankraman? Is it ever possible that chaitra will occur in August?
(These questions were added to the Hindu calendar article at the end of Month and year of the solar calendar and to the Ritu article by 59.95.65.14 on 15 October 2006 and then moved to this talk page by Joe Kress.)
In many parts of india, new year starts from Kartik (diwali being the last day of the year) see http://www.newyearfestival.com/gujarati-new-year.html http://www.baps.org/festivals/diwali/index2.htm —Preceding unsigned comment added by 168.40.104.158 ( talk • contribs) 19:25, 6 April 2009
There is an article called Hindu constellation that covers much of the same ground as this one, but seems to concentrate more on the history. Perhaps editors with more knowledge might look at it see if merger or some other course of action is appropriate? Neelmack 11:14, 23 August 2007 (UTC)
i want to see the 1980 calendar with hindi panchang —Preceding unsigned comment added by 122.163.74.199 ( talk) 16:54, 15 November 2008 (UTC)
Noticed an explanation from a west based swamiji about yugas. For ex, it was saying that we are entering into Treta yuga now. I respect the fact that this swami was inspired by bible since childhood. However, these are totally in contrast to any widely accepted and prescribed hindu references. Hence I have removed those cult(no disrespect meant) interpretations from here. I request the followers of such groups to put all the works and interpretations of their swamis under the groups specific pages. This way, we can ensure the article on hinduism represents historically and widely accepted information derived from traditional references like puranas and sastras and modern works based on them. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Nksarma ( talk • contribs) 22:49, 3 January 2013 (UTC)
Try to tabulate the Hindu months in the provided languages if possible. Frozenprakash ( talk) 13:45, 12 March 2014 (UTC)
This article is supposed to be in English, but it's so chuck full of Hindu terms that it has zero readabilities for anyone who just understand English, for no such reader can be expected to learn dozens of Hindu terms and keep them in their head while reading further down the article.
Most of the Hindu terms should be explained once in detail when they first occur, then replaced by the English translation (or the closest possible approximated term in English) in the rest of the article. Some of the other language versions of this article (for example, the German version) are much more readable, by doing exactly that. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 5.231.68.9 ( talk) 17:55, 4 January 2015 (UTC)
The opening passage gives an impression that all the Hindu calendars are luni-solar or sidereal; only in the body part we come across references to Hindu solar calendars. Almost one - third of the Hindu calendars are solar - all the four South Indian, Odia, Bengali and Assamese. This needs to be clarified.
The Hindu concept of ayanamsa is not mentioned anywhere here. Of course there is a separate article, but a reference from here would have been better. — Preceding unsigned comment added by Gopalan evr ( talk • contribs) 07:03, 8 December 2015 (UTC)
Should the title of article be changed to the plural "Hindu calendars" ? Jonathansammy ( talk) 17:31, 24 March 2016 (UTC)
I assume that "Chatur-Yugas" and "Catur-Yugas" are the term spelled differently? And that the term describes the complete cycle of Yugas? If that's correct, I think the page should explicitly say that. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 162.218.214.1 ( talk) 20:39, 18 January 2017 (UTC)
The Hindu calendar is also important to the practice of Hindu astrology and zodiac system, most of which it adopted from Greece, in centuries after the arrival of Alexander the Great.[1][10] The Indian national calendar or "Saka calendar" was redesigned in an effort that started in 1952 based on the traditional Hindu calendars, and it was adopted on March 22, 1957.[11]
needs correction! — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2602:306:CCC1:DF50:2828:3FF0:B3C5:21E ( talk) 18:44, 18 April 2017 (UTC)
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This article states that Tamil calendar is lunar while the Malayalam calendar is solar. But they are not different at all. The crucial test to distinguish between solar and luni- solar calendar is the absence of intercalary months in solar calendars. Since both Tamil and Malayalam calendars do not have intercalary months, both are solar calendars. - Gopalan evr ( talk) 03:09, 9 September 2018 (UTC)
Currently the rāśi solar month table here oddly starts with Grīṣma's Vṛṣabha in Jyeshtha (month) 7 whole weeks after the Western zodiac's ecliptic longitudes begin with the March equinox in the order of the tropical year,
… whereas the Vikrami lunar month table here naturally begins the sidereal year on Indic New Year's Vasṁt r̥tu's Mīna in Chaitra, which is only a week before the March northward equinox (i.e., vernal spring (season) in India in the boreal Northern Hemisphere.
That's why the tables'll match each other and make more sense after I move the whole Vasṁt r̥tu row to come before the whole Grīṣma r̥tu row, as per our Wikipedia:Be bold ethos. Thecurran ( talk) 03:42, 28 November 2020 (UTC)
The lunar months table includes columns for Tamil and Malayalam. These two calendars do not have lunar months (only solar months) and hence I removed those columns. The Malayalam names were mesham, rishabam etc., and hence do not belong here. The Tamil names indeed are Chitirai, Vaikasi etc, which sound like lunar months, but these months begin with a sankramana and not with new moon or full moon. Hence they too do not belong here.
Also, Chaitra is the first month of the lunar year (in all calendars). Hence I moved Chaitra to the top of the table. Kishorekumar 62 ( talk) 11:18, 6 December 2021 (UTC)
The table here is really a seasons table. The Hindu seasons are defined using rashis in Surya Siddhanta. The moon does not influence seasons; it influences tides but not seasons. Hence I removed the lunar months column. Kishorekumar 62 ( talk) 11:18, 6 December 2021 (UTC)
@
Kishorekumar 62, what's the sourcing for your
c:File:India_Calendars.png map, used here under "Amanta and Purnima systems"? Text that says something like "this is used in Andhra, Gujarat while that is used in UP, MP" is okay but to extrapolate that text to hard borders as on the map seems like
WP:OR. I'm pretty sure there are a lot of grey areas where it's difficult to pin down a single system, not just at the borders but elsewhere as well.
Hemantha (
talk)
05:39, 8 January 2022 (UTC) Blocked sock
I have a Youtube channel that illustrates the astronomical basis of the Hindu calendar using simulations created using Stellarium (a planetarium software). I believe this Youtube channel would supplement the Hindu Calendar wikipage and would like to include it as an external link. WP:EL#ADV indicates this could be a conflict of interest and "When in doubt, you may go to the talk page and let another editor decide." That is what I am doing here: can I link my Youtube channel as an external link? Kishorekumar 62 ( talk) 06:40, 24 May 2023 (UTC)
There should be a clarification early in the article that what is meant by a "lunar day" in this article is not what everyone else calls a "lunar day". "Lunar day" everywhere else is the length of the moon's day, which is approximately 29.5 days long. — al-Shimoni ( talk) 16:31, 27 December 2023 (UTC)