There are two luni-solar
calendars are used in India. Poornima
months and Amavasya months.
Poornima months months starts with
krishna paksha and end with shukla
paksha where as in Amavasya month
starts with shukla paksha and ends
with krishna paksha. There are
equal amount of treatise exists for
both system. Amavasya is easy for
calculation of Panchang, where as
poornima becomes more complicated
during Adhik month and kshaya maas,
(if you look at how they are
dividing the months when Adhik
month comes, you could end up
scratching your head). Amavasya is
very easy. Poornima is mostly used
in Hindi speaking belt. Non-Hindu
speaking belt like gujarati, Marathi,
south Indians uses Amavasya month
system. However, gujarati's new
year starts with Kartik shukla
paksha pratham where as Hindi
speaking people, and south Indian's
new year start with Chaitra shukla
paksha pratham
In Poornima Krishna paksha comes
first, and then shukla paksha. so
when Amavasya months have posh
krishna paksha Poornima will have Magha
krishna paksha and then will be Magha
shukla paksha (common for both),
after that Phalguna krishna paksha
will come for Poornima months
whereas amantha month call it as a Magha
krishna paksha.
When I say Magha krishna paksha Chaturdashi
for Amavasya it also means Phalguna
krishna paksha Chaturdashi for
Poornima
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