150 year Tamil Calendar starts from Gregorian calendar year 1870. Below get the information about Tamil Calendar 2011 in India that includes Monthly sheet with Wedding dates.
You can find any Tamil calendar day or date from the English calendar or find any English date from the Tamil calendar. Many sites provide daily and monthly tamil calendar in Tamil and in English online.
As many of the religious festivals and cultural events of Tamil Nadu depend on the Tamil calendar, but the tamil year calendar is still popular in the tamil speaking people around the globe.
When you check it, select the base calendar, i.e., view Tamil calendar on gregorian calendar or see gregorian dates on Tamil Calendar and then select the language in which you would like to see the page.
Tamil calendar is used mostly in Tamil Nadu and Puducherry in India, and by the Tamil population in Malaysia, Singapore and Sri Lanka. It is used for cultural, wedding dates, religious and agricultural events, with the Gregorian calendar mostly used for official purposes both within and outside India.
The Tamil calendar is focused on the classical Hindu solar calendar used in Assam, Bengal, Kerala, Manipur, Nepal, Orissa, Rajasthan and the Punjab as well. Some festivals of India are based on the Tamil Hindu calendar. The new year of Tamil follows the nirayanam vernal equinox and falls on 13 or 14 April of the Gregorian year.
You can view Tamil online calendar on this website.
Celebrations of Tamil Calender:
|சித்திரை - Chithirai (April)||14 April - 14 May||Chitra Pournami & Varusha pirappu are the most important festivals in this month.|
|வைகாசி - Vaikaasi (May)||15 May - 14 June||Vaikaasi Visaakam is the most important day in this month.|
|ஆணி - Aani (June)||15 June - 14 July||Aani Thirumanjanam or Aani Uttaram for Lord Nataraja is the most famous day in this month.|
|ஆடி - Aadi (July)||15 July - 14 August||A most important month for women. The most auspicious days are Fridays and Tuesdays in this month, these are called Aadi Velli and Aadi Chevvai and the Aadi Amavasya. Aadi Pooram is also a special day.|
|ஆவணி - Aavani (August)||15 August - 15 September||An important month with many rituals. Brahmins change their sacred thread on Aavani Avittam. Each Sunday of the month is dedicated to prayers - Aavani Gnayiru.|
|புரட்டாசி - Purattaasi (September)||15 September - 15 October||An important month for Vaishnavas. Purattaasi Sani (Saturday) is an auspicious day.|
|ஐப்பசி - Aippasi (October)||15 October - 14 November||The monsoons typically start over Tamil Nadu in this month. Hence the saying, "Aippasi Mazhai, adai mazhai" - meaning "Aippasi rains are persistent rains".
Also Annaabishekam for Lord Shiva is very famous in this month. The most famous Hindu festival "Deepavali" is celebrated in this month. The Fridays of this month - Aipassi velli - are dedicated to religious observance.
|கார்த்திகை - Karthikai (November)||15 November - 14 December||Another auspicious celebration for Shiva devotees is Thirukaarthigai. The Krithikaa Pournami is the special day of the full moon in the month of Kaarthikai, and the star is Krithikaa.
Each Monday of this month is dedicated to the worship of Lord Murugan. Every Monday is called as "Somavaaram" when 108 or 1008 sangabhishekam are offered to Lord Shiva and Lord Muruga.
|மார்கழி - Maargazhi (December)||15 December - 14 January||This is another special month in the Tamil Calendar. Temples open earlier in the mornings and Devotees throng the temples early for puja and prasadam - the offering made to the deity is later distributed to the devotees. Arudra Darisanam (Thiruvaadirai star in Tamil) is the most auspicious day in this month. This is also a very popular festival in Kerala, where it is called Thiruvaadira. The offering made to Lord siva is the Thiruvaadira Kali. Mukkodi Ekathesi is called "Sorgavasal Thirappu" for Lord Vishnu. The Tiruvembaavai fast takes place in this month.|
|தை - Thai (January)
|15 January - 14 February||Pongal, the harvest festival, is celebrated on the first day of this month. Thai Friday is a popular day among Telugu speaking peoples settled in Tamil Nadu. Thaipusam is also a special day for Murugan devotees, who carry Kavadis to one of the Aarupadaiveedu (Literally meaning "six abodes").|
|மாசி - Maasi (February)||15 February - 14 March||Maasi Magam is the special day of the most famous Mahasivarathiri and Maasi Magam which comes in this Month.|
|பங்குனி - Panguni (March)||15 March - 13 April||Panguni Uthiram, the last month of the year, is a famous festival and special to Murugan and Siva devotees.|
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