13 Facts About Hindu calendar

Hindu calendar is important to the practice of Hindu astrology and zodiac system as well as observing special appearance days of the Lord and fasting days such as Ekadashi.

Hindu calendar cites Greek historians describing Maurya kings referring to a calendar which originated in 6676 BCE known as Saptarsi calendar.

Vikrami Hindu calendar is named after king Vikramaditya and starts in 57 BCE.

Hindu calendar scholars kept precise time by observing and calculating the cycles of Surya, moon and the planets.

The 1st millennium CE Hindu calendar scholars calculated the sidereal length of a year as follows, from their astronomical studies, with slightly different results:.

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Hindu calendar texts used the lunar cycle for setting months and days, but the solar cycle to set the complete year.

The astrological application of the Hindu calendar was a field that likely developed in the centuries after the arrival of Greek astrology with Alexander the Great, because their zodiac signs are nearly identical.

Hindu calendar is based on a geocentric model of the solar system.

Twelve Hindu calendar mas are equal to approximately 354 days, while the length of a sidereal year is about 365 days.

The historic Hindu calendar texts are not consistent on these rules, with competing ideas flourishing in the Hindu calendar culture.

Hindu calendar makes further rare adjustments, over a cycle of centuries, where a certain month is considered kshaya month.

Just like months, the Hindu calendar has two measures of a day, one based on the lunar movement and the other on solar.

The weekday of a Hindu calendar has been symmetrically divided into 60 ghatika, each ghatika is divided into 60 pala, each pala is subdivided into 60 vipala, and so on.