A great topic, I am particularly interested in!
I have worked some solid 3-4 months to compute almost all calendars of
Indian traditions. Part of my ambition is to create a page in every Indian
Wiki for each year of the CE era, along with the corresponding calendars
in each Indian almanacs. This will involve a lot of references, computation
and 'wiki'fication of which, the first two parts are almost completed.
Let me keep a track of this thread. May we even form up a small project
group on this?
On Wed, Jan 15, 2014 at 3:49 PM, Dhaval S. Vyas <dsvyas(a)gmail.com> wrote:
As you doubt Gerard, though the month names are
same or similar in
different languages/cultures/calendars, months not always start and end at
the same time. Mainly in soouthern calendars, including the Gujarati and
Maharashtrian ones, months end on the New Moon day, while in Northern
calendars, months end on the Full moon day. This difference really make
months different, and thus many festivals though celebrated on the same day
throughout India, are actually marked in different months on religious
calendars.
E.g. Janmashtami is Shravan Vad (or Krishna paksh) ashtami in Gujarati
calendar, but in northern calendars, it is Bhadrapad krishnapaksh Ashtami.
Also, Kartik or Kartak is the first month of year, while in other
calendars, maharashtra and northern, Chaitra is the first month of year.
Regards,
Dhaval
On 15 Jan 2014 08:57, "Gerard Meijssen" <gerard.meijssen(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
Hoi,
I blogged about calendars. The problem I face is that I am adding
statements to the calendars in use in India.. I have worked on the Nepali
and the Bengali calendar and, I find that in the English Wikipedia some
months are merged into one article.
What I want to know is if these months exactly are at the same time or
not. Many calendars have special days. It would make sense to have an item
for them as well. I assume that many of the Indian Wikipedias have articles
for such events. It will help when they are known to be part of a specific
calendar..
Are there people who can help me with this ?
Thanks,
GerardM
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