Everlasting Divine Blessings of
Mata Dadanbai & Dr. Premchand Manghirmalani
The
Sindhu World
Sindhyat -
Sindhi Tipano - Hindu Panchang
Sindhi
youth specially born and brought up
in an European country, part of United
Kingdom or in the geographical region
called America might be wonder over
the fluctuation of dates of Sindhi
Festivals every year. This is due to
the difference of time span of
Gregorian calendar [year composed of
365 days] and Hindu Panchang or Sindhi
Tipano [ year composed of 354 days] in
fact this difference of 11 days is
resulting in the change of dates for
the Sindhi or Hindu festivals because
they falls in Sindhi months and we
celebrate according to Gregorian
calendar.
For the younger sindhi
generations, I am trying to put a
brief composition of Hindu/ Sindhi
year and names of Hindu / Sindhi
months with corresponding month of
Gregorian Calendar.
Hindu Panchang / Sindhi Tipano
Hindu/ Sindhi year is
composed of twelve lunar months [lunar
month is the time taken by moon to
revolve around the earth]. Every
sindhi month starts with Chandu [New
Moon Day] and this happens sometime
that in month there may be two moons,
in that case year have 13 months and
the month gets the name of original
month itself. This 13th month is
called as "Dharamau / Parshotam" in
sindhi and "Adhik" in Hindi. Usually
this month is treated as the more
beneficial for the religious
activities. Let us consider some
definitions:
Solar
Day: The time between two
consecutive risings of the sun Lunar Day: The time between two
consecutive risings of the moon - this
time period is also pronounced as
Tith Shuklapaksha [Bright
fortnight]: Starts with Chandu
[new moon] and ends on Satnarayan
in sindhi and Poornima in Hindi [Full
moon Day] Krishnapaksha [Dark Fortnight]
During this fortnight apparent size of
moon shows a gradual decline till the
day of Amavasaya [No Moon
night] which is the last day of the
month.
According to Hindu calendar transition
of sun among the twelve Rashis [Zodiac
signs] is completed in a year and in
every Rashi stay of sun is for the
period of a month. This transaction
happens to be in east to west side,
staring from Mesh [Aries] to end in
Meen [Pisces]. The day on which sun
transits from one Rashi to another is
known as the first day of the month,
however if this transition happen
after the sunset next day is
considered as the first day of month.
Every day of the week is associated
with planet and God, look at the
following table
Sindhi Name
Hindi Name
Associated God
Planet
English Name
Soomar
Somvar
Mahadeva [Shiva]
Moon
Monday
Mangal
Mangalvar
Ganapati [Ganesha] & Goddes
Paravati
Mars
Tuesday
Buddhar
Budhvar
Krishna
Mercury
Wednesday
Vispat
Guruvar
Veeral Devata - Dattaguru
Jupiter
Thursday
Jummo
Shukarvar
Jhulelal - Goddess Laxmi
Venus
Friday
Shanshar
Shanivar
Hanuman
Saturn
Saturday
Aaratwar
Ravivar
Surya [Sun]
Sun
Sunday
Twelve months of Hindu Panchang and
corresponding Gregorian months are
Hindu
[Sindhi] Month
Corresponding English Month(s)
Chaitra [Chaitu]
March -
April
Vaisakh [Vaisakhu]
April -
May
Jyeshta [Jethu]
May -
June
Aashaad [Aakhaad]
June -
July
Shravan [Savan]
July -
August
Bhadra [Badro]
August -
September
Ashwin [Assu]
September
- October
Kartik
[Kati]
October -
November
Margshreersh [Nahari]
November
- December
Paush [Pohu]
December
- January
Maagh [Manghu]
January -
February
Phagun [Phagun]
February
- March
Auspicious
time of the day: Day and night, each is
divided into 15 Mahurats, though there is
difference for the time period of each Mahurat
but on average one Mahurat means about 48
minutes. Hindu day starts with Braham Mahurat,
just before the dawn, First two Mahurats of
the day are treated as the auspicious time of
the day and considered most favorable for
spiritual practices. Similarly the last
Mahurat of the day [Before the sunset] is
utilised for the religious rituals since the
Vedic era.
Sindhi new
year starts with Chandu of Chaitu month -
the day is celebrated as the birthday of
sindhi deity Jhulelal through out the world.
According to Hindu calendar new year begins on
the day of entrance into Makar Raas
[Capricorn] the day is celebrated Makar
Sankrant. This is the only Hindu Festival
which often falls on 13th January.
This will be our pleasure if any of our
visitor expert in astrological science can
elaborate more this topic and help us to make
the sindhi youth aware of rich heritage of
Sindhis and Hindus.
