Wishing a very happy, healthy and successful new year to all my readers.
I have updated the Google Hindu Calendar with all the important Hindu festivals and events for 2008. In addition, this calendar includes the year and months from the Hindu calendar, new moon (amAvAsya), full moon (paurNami) and ekAdashi (11th day of the lunar fortnight) information.
If you have a Google account, you can add this Google Hindu Calendar to your personal Google Calendar using this link: Add Google Hindu Calendar.
To simply view the calendar in your web browser using this link: View Google Hindu Calendar.
If you find any errors or issues with the calendar, please leave a comment here.
Once again, best wishes for the new year.
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Happy New Year boss...
ReplyDeleteEn guru Paththene illa....
What a wonderful service to your readers!
ReplyDeleteHosa Varshada Shubhashayagalu.
ReplyDeleteHosa varsha yella reethiya hosa thanavannu tarali :)
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ReplyDeleteDear LL,
ReplyDeleteWishing you a very happy 2008! May your dreams come true.
Looked through the calendar with interest - what a thoughtful gesture! Now I can figure out when my father's thithi is.
The rahukalam markings seem suspect - rahukalam starts at the same time in each unique day of the week and lasts 1.5 hours:
Mon: 7:30 Am - 9:00 Am
Tue: 3:00 pm - 4:30 pm
Wed: 12 Noon - 1:30 pm
Thu: 1:30 pm - 3:00 pm
Fri: 10:30 Am - 12 Noon
Sat: 9 Am - 10:30 Am
Sun: 4:30 pm - 6 pm
There is a mnemonic in Tamil to memorize the orderings of the times and a ridiculous-sounding English one too:
Mother Saw Father Wearing Thursday's Turban on Sunday.
Basically Mother = Monday etc. Monday's starts at 7:30 and remaining you figure out by adding 1.5 hours as per mnemonic until you get the appropriate day.
Anyhow. My 2 cents :).
anbudan,
Priya.
Zen - I have been maintaining this calendar for almost 2 years now. Feel free to share the link with other people who might be interested.
ReplyDeleteChenna - Thanks very much for the new year wishes. Best wishes to you also. Good luck.
Priya - Thanks for checking out the Google Hindu Calendar and taking the effort to write about rAhukAlam. That was a very interesting way to remember the timings. However, I'm not sure why you think the rAhukAlam timings are incorrect in the calendar. They are the same timings as what you have listed. Perhaps, you mistook the day you were looking at in the calendar when you left the comment?
LL
LL,
ReplyDeleterAhukAlam is listed as 3:30 am on Wednesdaya in January. That is incorrect - rAhukAlam never starts before 7 am and never goes past 6 pm on any day.
Also, Hanumat Jayanti is today, not in April. You might want to check this calendar :(. Doesn't agree with the panchangam I have (the panchangam I have is till April only, will get a new one after Tamil New Year).
Priya.
P.S: Hope your year is going well.
Priya,
ReplyDeleteI think I know what the confusion with rAhukAlam timings is. The timezone of my Hindu Calendar is Arizona. The time zone for your personal Google account must be some other place (you can check that by going to your Account Settings). Unfortunately for us, Google Calendar considers the timing of the events to be absolute. So, if someone in India were to look at this calendar, it would show Wednesday's rAhukAlam timing as starting at 12:30 AM (midnight) on Thursday!
This type of calendar behavior is useful for say, a telephone meeting where participants from different timezones should log on at the same time, regardless of what their local time is. However, it is not suitable for events which are specific to local times. I wish Google would give us the option to choose whether the timing of events should be dynamic or absolute. In the meantime, to avoid these confusions, may be I should delete the rAhukAlam and other timing-specific events?
Regarding HanumAn Jayanthi, the most commonly accepted day is the day of Chitra Purnima, which is in April. By Googling, I did find one or two places where it said that Hanuman Jayanthi was today (occuring in the month of mArgazhi). I even saw one site which said it was some day in May. I don't know why there is this confusion. Nevertheless, since Chitra Purnima in April is the most commonly accepted date, I'm going to go with that.
Thanks for bringing thse issues up. My new year is going well so far. Trust the same with you.
LL
Thanks a lot for your calendar. I have been looking this for a long time.
ReplyDeleteYour 2008 Hindu calendar is wonderful....did you post one for 2009? I am looking everywhere but cannot find one. Please let me know. Thank you also for the info on Costco chapati in your 2009 post!
ReplyDeleteMaya
Mahamaya,
ReplyDeleteThe same calendar contains information for 2009 also. Did you check the calendar? Are you not able to see information for 2009?
LL