uttarayana
uttarāyaṇaThe sun's northward course, the auspicious half of the year, ritually begun at Makar Sankranti.
Where this term appears
- Eighty-five titles and no text: the Saura tantras and how a tradition disappears Lineages
The two roads of the Sun, the uttarayana and the dakshinayana , are set out on the site in the Sun's two roads; what jyotisha made of them is this.
- The Sun's Two Roads Treatise
The tradition names these two halves the two ayanas , the sun's two courses, two roads it walks in turn. The northward road is uttarayana .
- The Turning Toward Light Treatise
And it marks the turn the third chapter named: the beginning of uttarayana , the sun's northward course, the auspicious half of the year, the road the grandsire Bhishma waited for on his bed of arrows.