History of the Hindu Calendar

One of the most striking features of the Hindu calendar system is its intricacy. It offers a multi-dimensional method of structuring time, combining information about lunar days, solar days, lunar months, solar months, the movements of the Sun and the Moon about stellar constellations, and other astronomically defined periods. This makes the Hindu calendar vastly more complex than the <a href="https://www.timeanddate.com/calendar/gregorian-calendar.html" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">Western calendar</a>, which is built around only two basic units of time: <a href="https://www.timeanddate.com/time/earth-rotation.html" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">solar days</a> and <a href="https://www.timeanddate.com/astronomy/tropical-year.html" rel="noopener ugc nofollow" target="_blank">solar years</a>. To complicate things even further, there is not one single Hindu calendar. Each country and region uses its variant of the ancient system. The Indian National Calendar or Saka Calendar, the official standardized calendar of India since 1957, represents but one of many variations of the Hindu calendar. Still, some features are common to all or most variants. <a href="https://medium.com/@aresynshaw.work/history-of-the-hindu-calendar-59a6376495a9">Click Here</a>