{"id":7247,"date":"2012-04-21T14:04:00","date_gmt":"2012-04-21T14:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/?p=7247"},"modified":"2012-04-21T14:04:00","modified_gmt":"2012-04-21T14:04:00","slug":"the-lunar-calendar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/?p=7247","title":{"rendered":"The Lunar Calendar !"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"line-height: 18px;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"315\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/3XfywCpi9xc\" width=\"420\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"line-height: 18px;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;\"><br \/><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;\"><br \/><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;\"><br \/><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;\">Vaisakha is the second month of the Hindu Lunar Calender.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;\">The Full Moon of Vrishabha ( Taurus ) occurs near the constellation Beta Librae (Vishakha ) and hence is called Vaishakha. It begins from April 21 and&nbsp;<\/span><span style=\"background-color: white; color: #333333; display: inline; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 18px;\">ends on May 20.<\/p>\n<p>Vaishakha&#8230; begins from today, the New Moon of April. The Sikh Harverst Festival, Baisakhi, is celebrated this month. It is the second month of the Tamil Solar Calender.<\/p>\n<p>The Full Moon of Vaisakha is celebrated as Buddha Pournima or the birthday of Lord Buddha.<\/p>\n<p>In Guruvayur, the Holy Month of Vaisakha begins. Pilgrims from TN, Karnataka and AP rush to Guruvayur to have a glimpse of the Lord during this Holy Month.<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"line-height: 18px;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"color: #333333; font-family: 'lucida grande', tahoma, verdana, arial, sans-serif; font-size: x-small;\"><span style=\"line-height: 18px;\"><br \/><\/span><\/span><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vaisakha is the second month of the Hindu Lunar Calender. The Full Moon of Vrishabha ( Taurus ) occurs near the constellation Beta Librae (Vishakha ) and hence is called Vaishakha. It begins from April 21 and&nbsp;ends on May 20. Vaishakha&#8230; begins from today, the New Moon of April. The Sikh Harverst Festival, Baisakhi, is &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/?p=7247\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Lunar Calendar !&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7247","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7247","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=7247"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7247\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.eastrovedica.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}