Grishma is short for Grishmarutu, the
Sanskrit
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word meaning
summer
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. This is one of the six
season
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s (
ritu), each lasting two months, the others being:
Vasant (spring),
Varsha (
monsoon
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),
Sharad
Sharad/Sarath/Sharath ( sa, शरद्)is the autumn season or ritu in the Hindu calendar. It roughly corresponds to the western months of mid-September to mid-November. Sharad is preceded by Varsha and followed by Hemant. The Hindu calendar c ...
(
autumn),
Hemanta
Hemanta may refer to:
* ''Hemanta'' (film), a 2016 Bengali language film
* Hemanta Mukherjee metro station, a metro railway station in Kolkata, India
People with the given name
* Hemanta Bahadur B.C., Nepalese politician
*Hemanta Dora, Indian fo ...
(pre-
winter
Winter is the coldest season of the year in polar and temperate climates. It occurs after autumn and before spring. The tilt of Earth's axis causes seasons; winter occurs when a hemisphere is oriented away from the Sun. Different cultur ...
), and
Shishira (winter).
It falls in the two months (Rashi, Saur Maas, or solar months) of
Jayeshtha and Aashadh of the
Hindu calendar
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, or April and May of the
Gregorian calendar
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. It is preceded by
Vasanta, the
spring
Spring(s) may refer to:
Common uses
* Spring (season)
Spring, also known as springtime, is one of the four temperate seasons, succeeding winter and preceding summer. There are various technical definitions of spring, but local usage of ...
season, and followed by Varsha, the
rainy season
The rainy season is the time of year when most of a region's average annual rainfall occurs.
Rainy Season may also refer to:
* ''Rainy Season'' (short story), a 1989 short horror story by Stephen King
* "Rainy Season", a 2018 song by Monni
* '' ...
.
The word "grishma" is also used as a girls' name, and to mean "heat".
References
*Selby, Martha Ann (translator). ''The Circle of Six Seasons'', Penguin, New Delhi, 2003,
* Raghavan, V. ''Ṛtu in Sanskrit literature'', Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri Kendriya Sanskrit Vidyapeetha, Delhi, 1972.
Hindu calendar
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