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# Predicting country's (thereby people's) results such as rainfall, crop yield, business development, crime, accidents, diseases etc
 
# Predicting country's (thereby people's) results such as rainfall, crop yield, business development, crime, accidents, diseases etc
 
# Establishing important festivals and days (according to sampradayas)
 
# Establishing important festivals and days (according to sampradayas)
# Everyday Tithis, monthly Sankrantis, Nakshatras, Adhikamasa/Kshayamasa and Rashi chakras
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# Everyday Tithis, monthly Sankrantis, Nakshatras, Adhikamasa/Kshayamasa, Vishuvats and Rashi chakras etc
 
# Dharmas to be performed
 
# Dharmas to be performed
 
# Important and significant Yogas specific to that year
 
# Important and significant Yogas specific to that year
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The tithis, however, beginning as they do at any hour of the day, do not exactly coincide with solar days, and this gives rise to some little difficulty. The general rule for civil purposes, as well as for some ordinary religious purposes for which no particular time of day happens to be prescribed, is that the tithi current at sunrise of the savana day gives its name and numeral to that day, and is coupled with its week-day. Thus Bhadrapada sukla chaturdasi Sukravara (Friday the 4th of the first or bright fortnight of Bhadrapada) is that civil day at whose sunrise the tithi called the I4th in the bright half or sukla fortnight is current, and its week-day is Friday.<ref>The Indian Calendar (Page 16)</ref>
 
The tithis, however, beginning as they do at any hour of the day, do not exactly coincide with solar days, and this gives rise to some little difficulty. The general rule for civil purposes, as well as for some ordinary religious purposes for which no particular time of day happens to be prescribed, is that the tithi current at sunrise of the savana day gives its name and numeral to that day, and is coupled with its week-day. Thus Bhadrapada sukla chaturdasi Sukravara (Friday the 4th of the first or bright fortnight of Bhadrapada) is that civil day at whose sunrise the tithi called the I4th in the bright half or sukla fortnight is current, and its week-day is Friday.<ref>The Indian Calendar (Page 16)</ref>
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=== चान्द्रमासःNames of Lunar Months ===
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=== चान्द्रमासः ॥ Names of Lunar Months ===
 
It has been previously mentioned that Chandramana is a natural unit of time and so also the naming of lunar months is according to the visible changes in the sky. The name of a lunar month is given based on the nakshatra constellation in which the moon is generally present (or near those nakshatras) on the Purnima day (that lies between two Amavasya days in Amamta system). It must be noted that these names have been used since Vedic times for determining the days when Yajnas have to be conducted.   
 
It has been previously mentioned that Chandramana is a natural unit of time and so also the naming of lunar months is according to the visible changes in the sky. The name of a lunar month is given based on the nakshatra constellation in which the moon is generally present (or near those nakshatras) on the Purnima day (that lies between two Amavasya days in Amamta system). It must be noted that these names have been used since Vedic times for determining the days when Yajnas have to be conducted.   
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# Magha (माघमासः) : Nakshatra = Magha/Makha
 
# Magha (माघमासः) : Nakshatra = Magha/Makha
 
# Phalguna (फाल्गुणमासः) : Nakshatra = Purvaphalguni or Uttaraphalguni}}
 
# Phalguna (फाल्गुणमासः) : Nakshatra = Purvaphalguni or Uttaraphalguni}}
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=== Names of Samvatsaras (Lunar Years) ===
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[[File:Names of Samvatsaras.PNG|thumb|400x400px|Names of Samvatsaras (Chandra Mana)]]
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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.
    
== वारः ॥ Vara - Day of the Week ==
 
== वारः ॥ Vara - Day of the Week ==

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