sankranti
saṃkrāntiThe moment the sun enters a new sign of the zodiac; Makar Sankranti, the entry into Capricorn, is the most celebrated.
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Makara Sankranti is still reckoned by the Sun's entry into the sidereal sign, which now falls around the fourteenth of January, while the solstice it commemorates falls around the twenty-first of December.
- Surya Namaskar: The Sun Salutation Yoga
It belongs, too, to the great solar festival of Makar Sankranti , when the sun turns north and the days begin to lengthen.
- Why do so many temples face east? Temples
At the Gavi Gangadhareshwara cave temple in Bengaluru, on Makar Sankranti in mid-January, the sun sends a beam through a precise gap so that for a few minutes the light crosses the dark interior and touches the…
- One Festival, Many Names Treatise
A few, like Makar Sankranti , follow the sun, fixed to a sankranti , and barely move.
- The New Year and the Avatara Treatise
In Assam, Bohag Bihu . In Odisha, Pana Sankranti .
- The Sun's Two Roads Treatise
As the sun crosses from one sign into the next, the moment of crossing is a sankranti , a transition.
- The Turning Toward Light Treatise
This is Makar Sankranti , the festival of the turning, and with it the year comes down out of the long autumn dark and begins, at last, to climb back toward the light.