masa
māsaA lunar month; the twelve run from Chaitra through Phalguna, each named for the star near which its full moon falls.
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
Two pakshas , one bright and one dark, make a lunar month, a masa .
- The Sun's Two Roads Treatise
That month, the one with no solar transition inside it, is declared the adhika masa , the extra month, and the year that holds it runs to thirteen moons.