samvatsara
saṃvatsaraA year in the Hindu calendar, named within a sixty-year cycle and reckoned in the panchanga from the masa and the tithi.
Where this term appears
- The Year as a Teacher Treatise
And the longer cycles still, reaching toward the samvatsara of sixty years and, far beyond, the yugas and kalpas that the first chapter set as the outermost rim, the life of the cosmos itself.