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.