ashadha
आषाढ āṣāḍhaAshadha is the fourth lunar month, roughly June–July. It holds the Jagannath Ratha Yatra and Guru Purnima, and opens the four-month Chaturmasya.
Where this term appears
- Jagannath Puri and the Ratha Yatra Temples
A renewal is called when an intercalary month, the Adhika Masa or extra lunar month, falls in the month of Ashadha .
- Reading the Hindu Calendar Treatise
There are twelve: Chaitra , Vaishakha , Jyeshtha , Ashadha , Shravana , Bhadrapada , Ashvina , Kartika , Margashirsha , Pausha , Magha , and Phalguna .
- The Summer Turn Treatise
On the second tithi of the bright fortnight of Ashadha , the great wooden temple of Jagannath gives up its three deities.