Lunar month
Jyeshtha
The hottest month. Its fasts are about endurance and sharing water: Nirjala Ekadashi, Ganga Dussehra, and the Vat Savitri vrat and Shani Jayanti on the new moon.
May to JuneSummer (Grishma)Full moon in Jyeshtha
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Months are counted the North Indian way (purnimanta): a month runs from one full moon to the next, so the dark half belongs to the following month. In Maharashtra, Gujarat and the South the dark half belongs to the earlier month, so the same festival can carry a different month name there.