[Advaita-l] Happy Diwali/Sal Mubarak!

[Siva Senani Nori]

On Monday, 4 November 2013 6:14 PM, Ravi Chandrasekhara <vadhula at yahoo.com> wrote:

Pranam ,
>
>Amara Gujarati loko: Diwali Subbhakaamiyen ane Sal Mubarak!
>I take it that Gujarat VS is similar to Dakshina Bharat SS calender in that the month begins with Amavasa.

In South India, month does not begin with amaavaasya, it ends with that. The first tithi is pratipat or paaDyamee (in Telugu) of the Suklapaksha. In North, month ends with poorNimaa and starts with Krishnapaksha pratipat,

Regards
N. Siva Senani


>
>In Uttara Bharat, I think new month begins with Purinma  using VS.
>
>Ravi Chandrasekhara
>
>Sent from my iPhone
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>On Nov 4, 2013, at 3:35, Sujal Upadhyay <sujal.u at gmail.com> wrote:
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>> Happy Diwali Jaldhar bhai and all and happy Gujarati New year.
>> 
>> Sujal
>> 
>> OM
>> 
>> Sujal Upadhyay
>> 
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>> nothing but unhappiness" - Bhagawan Ramana Maharshi
>> 
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>> He who lacks faith, lacks all
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>> On Mon, Nov 4, 2013 at 10:03 AM, Jaldhar H. Vyas <jaldhar at braincells.com>wrote:
>> 
>>> On Mon, 4 Nov 2013, Srirudra wrote:
>>> 
>>> Whether Gujarathi years also have sixty names like Tamil Calender?
>>> 
>>> Yes though the names are only used in samkalpa.  For everyday purposes the
>>> years are numbered from the accession of King Vikramaditya in 57BC hence
>>> this era is called Vikram Samvat.  Elsewhere in India, the VS era is
>>> chaitradi but the Gujarati Vikram Samvat is unusual in that it is
>>> kartikadi.  This means the VS year name will be out of sync with that in TN
>>> though the same set of 60 names are used.
>>> 
>>> The  present year is called Vijaya.
>>> 
>>> This calendar is also used in Gujarat to a lesser extent.  It is known as
>>> Shalivahan Shaka.  Presently the SS year is 1935.
>>> 
>>> To be on the safe side, I repeat the names and numbers of both the Vikram
>>> and Shalivahan years during samkalpa.
>>> 
>>> 
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