tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3442555339667770589.post1334971787091796394..comments2024-03-18T22:56:06.696+05:30Comments on Jayasree Saranathan: Dating of Thirruppavai from paasurams 1, 3 & 4Jayasree Saranathan http://www.blogger.com/profile/01048252011566427834noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3442555339667770589.post-61846690217574331312008-12-20T20:15:00.000+05:302008-12-20T20:15:00.000+05:30Thanks for the response. There are 10 types calend...Thanks for the response. There are 10 types calenders which I will write separately in this blog. Narada samhita lists 9 types. The left out one is Shukra mana or Asura mana or the calender that follows the cycle of Venus. This was followed by the Mayans. I have written about them in the blog post on Mayan prediction of year 2012.<BR/><BR/>The difference in following of the month from shukla paksha and / or from Krishna paksha is to do with where it was followed - in the southern hemisphere or northern hemisphere. Wherever it is mentioned that the month started in Krishna paksha, it must be inferred that the place where it was followed was in the south of equator! <BR/><BR/>Tamils / and most parts of India follow Luni-solar calender. Both soura mana and chnadra mana are followed. I have written about the different utilities of these in my post on Kaarthigai deepam. The adhik masa happens once in 2 and a half years. 2 such rounds (5 years) make one yuga. 12 rounds of such yuga make one cycle of 60 years which have been named from Prabhava, Vibhava onwards. You can find the details of this in the vedic astronomy.com given in the link section.Jayasree Saranathan https://www.blogger.com/profile/01048252011566427834noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3442555339667770589.post-77111164149663738912008-12-20T15:35:00.000+05:302008-12-20T15:35:00.000+05:30This article is an interesting deduction about the...This article is an interesting deduction about the most probable period of the composition of Tirupaavai. <BR/><BR/>I would like to add some related points.<BR/><BR/>In Bharat-varsham, in earlier times, we used to have various calendar systems. Some school of thought used to have Pournami as the start of the month. The names of the month got derived from the nakshatram-position of the Moon on that full moon day. Later on (I cannot hazard a guess about the time period) certain school of thought deemed it suitable to start the month on Amavasya. Hence the Amavasya preceding that Pournami was taken as the month begining. But the name of the month was retained. The above system of calendar is called chaandra-maana.<BR/>Since the month was calculated based on the moon-position - a 'maasam' was also called as 'thingal'. Even today month is called as 'thingalu' in Karnataka - where they follow the chaandra-maana calendar (apart from Andhra & Maharashtra).<BR/>Solar calendar (or Soura-maana) was also very well aware - the solar months are named after the raasi in which surya-bhagavan traverses-it has been in existence in tandem with astrology.<BR/><BR/>Due to the inherent nature (I wont call it as a defect) of the lunar year having around 8-10 days fewer than the solar year, extra month or "adhika maasam" was added in regular periods. Whenever two amavasyas occurred in a solar month - that intervening period of the amavasyas are considered as the extra month.<BR/><BR/>Ancient population settled Tamil Nadu had tried its hand under all the three system of calendar derivations - not necessarily in a seuqential order of time. Hence some group of families used Pornami as the month-start, some used amavasya and some used the sun-movement to a raasi (used presently).Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com