Sharad/Sarath/Sharath ( sa, ΰ€Άΰ€°ΰ€¦ΰ₯)is the autumn season or
ritu in the
Hindu calendar
The Hindu calendar, Panchanga () or Panjika is one of various lunisolar calendars that are traditionally used in the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia, with further regional variations for social and Hindu religious purposes. They adopt a s ...
. 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 contains six seasons (
Vasant
Basant or Vasant is a Hindustani classical raga.
Raga
Every raga has a strict set of rules which govern the number of notes that can be used; which notes can be used; and their interplay that has to be adhered to for the composition of a tu ...
,
Grishma
Grishma is short for Grishmarutu, the Sanskrit word meaning summer
Summer is the hottest of the four temperate seasons, occurring after spring and before autumn. At or centred on the summer solstice, the earliest sunrise and latest sunset ...
,
Varsha, Sharad, Hemant,
Shishir
In the Hindu calendar Shishir is the Ritu or season related to winters and cold. It is the month of Magha and Phalguna or mid January to mid March in the calendar year. It is also one among the many names of the Hindu God Lord Vishnu
...
) with two months each.
Sharad is characterized by clear skies, after three months of rains. Sharad
Navratri
Navaratri is an annual Hindu festival observed in the honour of the goddess Durga. It spans over nine nights (and ten days), first in the month of Chaitra (March/April of the Gregorian calendar), and again in the month of Sharada. It is ob ...
, are the first nine auspicious days of the season,
Sharad Purnima
Sharad Purnima (also known as Kumara Purnima, Kojagari Purnima, Navanna Purnima, Kojagrat Purnima or Kaumudi Purnima) is a religious festival celebrated on the full moon day of the Hindu lunar month of Ashvin (September to October), marking t ...
, the full moon day in the month of
Ashwin, is celebrated as the day of divine Rasalila by Shri Krishna. That is the brightest full moon night of the year.
Sharad is also a Hindu name given to the grandchildren of Seva or the child of gods and it is also a month of Hindu calendar
Famous people from the name Sharad
Politics
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Sharad Pawar
Sharad Govindrao Pawar (Marathi pronunciation: ΙΙΎΙdΜͺ pΙΚaΛΙΎ born 12 December 1940) is an Indian politician. He has served as the Chief Minister of Maharashtra on four occasions. He has held the posts of Minister of Defence and Minist ...
β President of the
Nationalist Congress Party
The Nationalist Congress Party ( NCP) is one of the nine national parties in India. The party generally supports Indian nationalism and Gandhian secularism. It is the largest opposition party in Maharashtra and is also a significant party in ...
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Sharad Singh Bhandari β
Nepalese politician
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Sharad Bansode β Indian politician
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Sharad Anantrao Joshi
Sharad Anantrao Joshi (3 September 1935 β 12 December 2015) was an Indian politician who founded the Swatantra Bharat Paksh party and ''Shetkari Sanghatana'' (farmers' Organisation), He was also a Member of the Parliament of India representin ...
β Member of the
Parliament of India
The Parliament of India (International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration, IAST: ) is the supreme legislative body of the Republic of India. It is a bicameralism, bicameral legislature composed of the president of India and two houses: the R ...
representing
Maharashtra
Maharashtra (; , abbr. MH or Maha) is a states and union territories of India, state in the western India, western peninsular region of India occupying a substantial portion of the Deccan Plateau. Maharashtra is the List of states and union te ...
in the
Rajya Sabha
The Rajya Sabha, constitutionally the Council of States, is the upper house of the bicameral Parliament of India. , it has a maximum membership of 245, of which 233 are elected by the legislatures of the states and union territories using si ...
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Sharad Yadav
Sharad Yadav (born 1 July 1947) is a politician from Rashtriya Janata Dal (RJD) party. He has been elected to Lok Sabha seven times and to Rajya Sabha thrice from JD(U). He was the first national president of Janata Dal (United) since its form ...
β Politician
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Sharad Kumar Awasthi β former
MLA from
Ram Nagar
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Sharad Tripathi
Sharad Tripathi (9 January 1972 β 30 June 2021) was a member of the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) from the state of Uttar Pradesh. He was elected to Lok Sabha from Sant Kabir Nagar constituency in the 2014 general election.
Education
He c ...
β Member of the
Bharatiya Janata Party
The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP; ; ) is a political party in India, and one of the two major Indian political parties alongside the Indian National Congress. Since 2014, it has been the ruling political party in India under Narendra Modi ...
(9 January 1972 β 30 June 2021)
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Sharad Ranpise
Sharad Ranpise (18 September 1951 β 23 September 2021) was an Indian politician who was a member of the Indian National Congress. On 10 July 2018, he was re-elected unopposed with 10 others to the Maharashtra Legislative Council
The Maha ...
β Member of the
Indian National Congress
The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party but often simply the Congress, is a political party in India with widespread roots. Founded in 1885, it was the first modern nationalist movement to emerge in the British Em ...
.
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Sharad Dighe
Sharad Shankar Dighe (1924-2002) was an Indian politician. He was elected to the Lok Sabha from the Bombay North Central as a member of the Indian National Congress. He was earlier the Speaker of the Maharashtra Legislative Assembly
The ...
β former member of the Indian National Congress from the
Bombay North Central (1924β2002)
Film and Television
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Sharad Kapoor
Sharad Kapoor (born 13 February 1976) is an Indian actor, who works in Hindi
Hindi ( DevanΔgarΔ«: or , ), or more precisely Modern Standard Hindi (Devanagari: ), is an Indo-Aryan language spoken chiefly in the Hindi Belt region en ...
β Indian actor
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Sharad Talwalkar
Sharad Talwalkar (1 November 1918 - 22 August 2001) was an Indian film and television actor who led the Marathi film industry and theatre for many years. He had performed in more than 180 Marathi films.
Childhood
He had a passion for acting from ...
β Indian
Marathi language
Marathi (; ''MarΔαΉhΔ«'', ) is an Indo-Aryan languages, Indo-Aryan language predominantly spoken by Marathi people in the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the official language of Maharashtra, and additional official language in the state o ...
film and television actor
* Sharad Vyas β Television actor
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Sharad Ponkshe
Sharad Ponkshe is an Indian actor and writer, mainly working in Hindi and Marathi cinema. He is a speaker and an actor in Marathi film, theater and television.
Career
Ponkshe started his career in the year 1988 and worked in multiple fields incl ...
β Indian actor and writer
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Sharad Sharma
Sharad Sharma is an Indian cartoonist based in New Delhi, India. He was associated with many newspapers and magazines before he switched to electronic media and introduced political animation to Indian TV news channels. In the late 1990s, he form ...
β Indian
cartoonist
A cartoonist is a visual artist who specializes in both drawing and writing cartoons (individual images) or comics (sequential images). Cartoonists differ from comics writers or comic book illustrators in that they produce both the literary and ...
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Sharad Kelkar
Sharad Kelkar (born 7 October 1976) is an Indian film actor and voice artist from Mumbai, Maharashtra. He works primarly in Hindi films, Marathi films. Kelkar has appeared as lead in television serials for brief period of time, now he do web se ...
β Indian actor
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Sharad Gogate β Marathi publisher and writer
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Sharad Haskar β Photographer
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Sharad Malhotra
Sharad Malhotra (born 9 January 1983) is an Indian actor, who primarily works in Hindi television and Hindi films. He made his acting debut in 2004 with the role of Prince Goldy in '' Princess Dollie Aur Uska Magic Bag''. His first major role w ...
β Indian film and television actor
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Sharad Joshi
Sharad Joshi was an Indian poet, writer, satirist and a dialogue and scriptwriter in Hindi films and television. He was awarded the Padma Shri in 1990.
Biography
Early life and education
Sharad Joshi was born on 21 May 1931 in Ujjain, Madhya ...
β Indian poet, writer,
satirist
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Under Contemporary, 1930-196 ...
and a
dialogue
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and scriptwriter in Hindi films and television (1931β1991)
Law and order
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Sharad Arvind Bobde
Sharad Arvind Bobde (born 24 April 1956) is an Indian judge who served as the 47th Chief Justice of India from 18 November 2019 to 23 April 2021.
He is a former Chief Justice of the Madhya Pradesh High Court. He is also serving as the Chance ...
β 47 Chief Justice of India
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Sharad Kumar β former
Indian Police Service
The Indian Police Service ( IPS) is a civil service under the All India Services. It replaced the Indian Imperial Police in 1948, a year after India became independent from the British Raj.
Along with the Indian Administrative Service (IAS ...
(IPS) officer
Medicine
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Sharad Panday
Sharad Pandey (22 October 1934 β 8 November 2004) was an Indian heart surgeon. He was on the team of surgeons who performed the first-ever heart transplant in India at the King Edward Memorial Hospital and Seth Gordhandas Sunderdas Medical C ...
β Indian
heart surgeon
Cardiothoracic surgery is the field of medicine involved in surgical treatment of organs inside the thoracic cavity β generally treatment of conditions of the heart (heart disease), lungs (lung disease), and other pleural or mediastinal struc ...
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Sharad Vaidya
Sharad Vaidya (7 March 1936 β 19 October 2000) was an Indian surgeon who specialized in cancer surgery. He established the Goa Cancer Society and founded the Gosalia Memorial Cancer Hospital and the National Organisation for Tobacco Eradicatio ...
β Indian surgeon
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Sharad Kumar Dixit β Indian born American
plastic surgeon
Plastic surgery is a surgical specialty involving the restoration, reconstruction or alteration of the human body. It can be divided into two main categories: reconstructive surgery and cosmetic surgery. Reconstructive surgery includes craniof ...
Sports
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Sharad Diwadkar β Indian
Cricket
Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by striki ...
er
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Sharad Rao β Indian Cricketer
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Sharad Hazare β Indian Cricketer (1945β2022)
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Sharad Kumar β Indian
Paralympic
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high jumper
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Sharad Vesawkar
Sharad Vesawkar ( ne, ΰ€Άΰ€°ΰ€¦ ΰ€ΰ₯ΰ€·ΰ€Ύΰ€΅ΰ€ΰ€°, born 9 October 1988) is a Nepalese professional cricketer. He is a right-handed middle-order batsman and a right-arm off break bowler. He made his debut for Nepal against
UAE in March 2004. ...
β Nepalese Cricketer
Entrepreneur
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Sharad Devarajan
Sharad Devarajan is the co-founder and chief executive officer of Liquid Comics LLC, a digital entertainment company that uses the medium of graphic novel storytelling to develop original content for various digital platforms, publishing, theatr ...
β CEO of
Gotham Comics
Gotham Entertainment Group LLC was an American company established in 1997 in comics, 1997 to establish a leadership position in the Indian comics, Indian Comic anthology, comic magazine and children's book market. The company was established by ...
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Sharad Sagar β Indian
social entrepreneur
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and the Founder and CEO of Dexterity Global
References
*Selby, Martha Ann (translator). ''The Circle of Six Seasons'', 2003,
* Raghavan, V. ''αΉtu in Sanskrit literature'', Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri from Nepal, 1972.
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