vaishakha
वैशाख vaiśākhaVaishakha is the second lunar month, roughly April–May. It carries Akshaya Tritiya, Buddha Purnima, and Narasimha Jayanti.
Where this term appears
- Reading the Hindu Calendar Treatise
There are twelve: Chaitra , Vaishakha , Jyeshtha , Ashadha , Shravana , Bhadrapada , Ashvina , Kartika , Margashirsha , Pausha , Magha , and Phalguna .
- The New Year and the Avatara Treatise
The Telugu tradition keeps a forty-one-day observance running from the Chaitra full moon into Vaishakha .
- The Summer Turn Treatise
Akshaya Tritiya falls on the third tithi of the bright fortnight of Vaishakha , in late April or early May.
- The Shankaracharya Tradition In The Modern Period Treatise
…y of Akshaya Tritiya , the third lunar day of the bright fortnight of Vaishakha that the Hindu tradition holds as one of the most spiritually generative days of the year — at the Kanchi Kamakoti Peetham in Kanc…