section_path: Months/Solar month and seasons
section_name: Solar month and seasons
paragraph_text: Solar month and seasons
  
  The Hindu calendar divides the zodiac into twelve division called rāśi ("group"). The Sun appears to move around the Earth through different divisions/constellations in the sky throughout the year, which in reality is actually caused by the Earth revolving around the Sun. The rāśi s have 30° each and are named for constellations found in the zodiac.
  
  The time taken by the Sun to transit through a rāśi is a solar month whose name is identical to the name of the rāśi. In practice, solar months are mostly referred as rāśi (not months).
  
  The solar months are named differently in different regional calendars. While the Malayalam calendar broadly retains the phonetic Sanskrit names, the Bengali and Tamil calendars repurpose the Sanskrit lunar month names (Chaitra, Vaishaka etc.) as follows:
  
  The solar months (rāśi) along with their equivalent names in the Bangali, Malayalam and Tamil calendar are given below:
  
  The solar months (rāśi) along with the approximate correspondence to Hindu seasons and Gregorian months are:
  
  The names of the solar months are also used in the Darian calendar for the planet Mars.