Hindu Calendar 2016

Hindu Calendar Panchangam 2016 - Simple calendar listing

All the Hindu festivals and important dates in your pocket.

In the Hindu calendar, the day starts with the sunrise. It is allotted five "properties" or "limbs". They are:

the Tithi (one of 30 divisions of a synodic month) active at sunrise

the Vasara (ancient nomeclature), vara (modern nomeclature), like in ravi-vara, soma-vara, etc. or weekday

the Nakṣatra (one of 27 divisions of the celestial ecliptic) in which the moon resides at sunrise

the Yoga (one of 27 divisions based on the ecliptic longitude of the sun and moon) active at sunrise time

the Karaṇa (divisions based on tithis) active at sunrise.