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[[File:Names of Samvatsaras.PNG|thumb|403x403px|Names of Samvatsaras (Chandra Mana)]]
[[File:Names of Samvatsaras.PNG|thumb|403x403px|Names of Samvatsaras (Chandra Mana)]]
Each Lunar year is called a Samvatsara. A cycle of 60 samvatsaras is followed by the people. This cycle is five times the Barhaspatya Mana of 12 years. They have specific names and the good or bad effects in a particular year are indicated to a certain extent in the names of these sixty years.
Each Lunar year is called a Samvatsara. A cycle of 60 samvatsaras is followed by the people. This cycle is five times the Barhaspatya Mana of 12 years. They have specific names and the good or bad effects in a particular year are indicated to a certain extent in the names of these sixty years.
=== Adhikamasa and Kshayamasa ===
The lunar (or luni-solar) year is linked to the solar year in a systematic and natural way, unlike the leap year of the Roman calander. The lunar year falls short of a solar year by about 10.8893 days. When this difference adds up to a full lunar month, an extra month, called adhikamasa or intercalary or extra-month is added to that particular lunar year. This intercalary lunar month falls completely within the period of the corresponding solar month, when there is no sankramana or entry of the Sun into the next rashi. During an adhikamasa, ceremonies such as marriages are not performed. The lunar year will have 13 months and 383 or 384 days when an adhikamasa is present. Generally, an adhikamasa occurs between the months of Phalguna and Ashvina.<ref name=":2" />
If in the course of a lunar month, there are two sankrantis, then that lunar month is considered as a Kshayamasa or deletory month which occurs rather very rarely. A kshayamasa occurs on one of the three lunar months - Kartika, Margasira, or Pushya. This is so, because of the faster motion of the sun during that period and hence the solar months could be slightly less than the corresponding lunar month. A kshayamasa is not counted by its name. A lunar year in which there is a kshayamasa will have two adhikamasas, one preceding it and another succeeding it.<ref name=":2" />
== वारः ॥ Vara - Day of the Week ==
== वारः ॥ Vara - Day of the Week ==