section_path: Six-season reckoning
section_name: Six-season reckoning
paragraph_text: Six-season reckoning
  
  Some calendars in south Asia use a six-season partition where the number of seasons between summer and winter can number from one to three. The dates are fixed at even intervals of months.
  
  In the Hindu calendar of tropical and subtropical India, there are six seasons or Ritu that are calendar-based in the sense of having fixed dates: Vasanta (spring), Grishma (summer), Varsha (monsoon), Sharada (autumn), Hemanta (early winter), and Shishira (prevernal or late winter). The six seasons are ascribed to two months each of the twelve months in the Hindu calendar. The rough correspondences are:
  
  The Bengali Calendar is similar but differs in start and end times. It has the following seasons or ritu:
  
  The Odia Calendar is similar but differs in start and end times.
  
  The Tamil calendar follows a similar pattern of six seasons