Two karanas make one tithi, so a lunar month holds 60 karanas. Seven names repeat and four are fixed at the month edges, as in the karana lesson.
Vishti, also called Bhadra in many North Indian almanacs, is the seventh repeating karana. Spelling of the movable set varies by tradition.
Lessons that use this term
Sources for this entry
- vedaksha-vedic panchanga.rs (6° span and name table)
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