Ogrohayon ( bn, অগ্রহায়ণ ''Ôgrôhayôn''), alternately spelled Agrahayan, is the eighth month of the

Bengali calendar The Bengali Calendar or Bangla Calendar ( bn, বঙ্গাব্দ , , Baṅgābda), colloquially ( bn, বাংলা সন, Baṅgla Śon), is a solar calendar used in the Bengal region of the Indian subcontinent. A revised version of t ...

. It is the second of the two months that make up the

dry season The dry season is a yearly period of low rainfall, especially in the tropics. The weather in the tropics is dominated by the tropical rain belt, which moves from the northern to the southern tropics and back over the course of the year. The te ...

, locally called "Hemanta" ( bn, হেমন্ত ''Hemôntô''). It is commonly believed that this month is very auspicious for

marriage Marriage, also called matrimony or wedlock, is a culturally and often legally recognized union between people called spouses. It establishes rights and obligations between them, as well as between them and their children, and between ...

Etymology

The month is named after the star Mrigashīra ( bn, মৃগশিরা ''Mrigôshira'').

Festival

The first day of the month is the

Nabanna ''Nobanno'' ( bn, নবান্ন, Nobānno; lit: New Feast) is a Bengali harvest celebration usually celebrated with food and dance and music in Bangladesh and in the Indian states of West Bengal, Tripura and Assam's Barak Valley. It is a ...

harvest festival.

Events

Mahesh Chandra Nyayratna Bhattacharyya Mahamahopadhyay Pandit Mahesh Chandra Nyayratna Bhattacharyya (22 February 1836 – 12 April 1906) was an Indian scholar of Sanskrit, and the principal of the Sanskrit College between 1876 and 1895. A friend and colleague of Ishwar Chandra Vid ...

was born 17 Agrahayan in 1265.

References

Months of the Bengali calendar {{Bangladesh-stub