chaitra
चैत्र caitraChaitra is the first month of the Hindu lunar year, falling roughly in March–April. It opens with Chaitra Navaratri and Rama Navami, and with the new-year festivals of Ugadi and Gudi Padwa.
Where this term appears
- What is Navaratri? Worship
The other major observance is Vasanta or Chaitra Navaratri in spring, in the lunar month of Chaitra, around March or April.
- Eighty-five titles and no text: the Saura tantras and how a tradition disappears Lineages
…ed two sun festivals held on the sixth day of the bright fortnight of Chaitra and Karttika at Deo-Baranark in Bihar, a village whose Sun-temple endowment is the subject of an undated Later Gupta charter; the no…
- Who is Rama? Deities
His great day is Rama Navami , the ninth of the bright fortnight of Chaitra, kept as his birthday with fasting and the recitation of his story, grandest at Ayodhya and at the southern shrines of Bhadrachalam an…
- Reading the Hindu Calendar Treatise
There are twelve: Chaitra , Vaishakha , Jyeshtha , Ashadha , Shravana , Bhadrapada , Ashvina , Kartika , Margashirsha , Pausha , Magha , and Phalguna .
- The New Year and the Avatara Treatise
The dark fortnight of Phalguna ends, the moon goes new, and on the next dawn a fresh bright fortnight opens the month of Chaitra , the first month.
- The Nine Nights Treatise
Navaratri, the nine nights, falls in the bright fortnight of Ashvina, around September or October, and is the great autumn festival of the Goddess. Its story is the…
- The verse that was never about mantras Treatise
…: नौमी भौम बार मधु मासा, the ninth tithi , a Tuesday, in the month of Caitra, at Ayodhyā.