magha
माघ māghaMagha is the eleventh lunar month, roughly January–February. It carries Vasant Panchami and the great Magha bathing at Prayag, the setting of the Kumbh Mela.
Where this term appears
- Surya Namaskar: The Sun Salutation Yoga
… above all Ratha Saptami , the seventh day of the bright fortnight of Magha, kept as the sun's own turning, the day the tradition treats almost as the sun's birthday, when devotees rise in darkness to bathe and…
- The Kumbh Mela Temples
At Prayag this observance falls especially in the month of Magha, in the cold heart of the North Indian winter.
- What is Jyotisha? Scriptures
In the great wedding hymn, Rigveda 10.85.13: aghasu hanyante gavo, 'rjunyoh paryuhyate. The oxen are slain in Magha .
- Who is Saraswati? Deities
How she is served Saraswati's chief festival is Vasant Panchami , the fifth day of the bright fortnight of Magha, in the last of winter as spring arrives.
- One Festival, Many Names Treatise
The night of Shiva is a festival of Magha in one reckoning and of Phalguna in another.
- Reading the Hindu Calendar Treatise
There are twelve: Chaitra , Vaishakha , Jyeshtha , Ashadha , Shravana , Bhadrapada , Ashvina , Kartika , Margashirsha , Pausha , Magha , and Phalguna .
- The Burning and the Colours Treatise
The Goddess in yellow Spring announces itself on the fifth tithi of the bright fortnight of Magha , in late January or early February, with Vasant Panchami .
- The Great Night Treatise
In the southern, amanta reckoning this falls in the month of Magha .