phalguna
फाल्गुन phālgunaPhalguna is the twelfth and final lunar month, roughly February–March, closing the year with Maha Shivaratri and Holi.
Where this term appears
- 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
On the full moon of Phalguna , the month after Vasant Panchami , communities build a pyre, and after dark they light it.
- The Great Night Treatise
In the northern, purnimanta reckoning the same night is counted in 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 Golagi matha: the monastery that survives only in its own praise Lineages
The year is given as Samvat 724, Phalguna sudi 5, the fifth day of the bright fortnight, and Mirashi observes that the numerals stand alone, with no era named.