Talk:Sankranthi

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Note: There are 12 Sankrantis in a year. deeptrivia (talk) 05:32, 16 January 2006 (UTC)

Shouldn't this be explained with in both articles along with a list of all 12? Darkfearytales 14:11, 12 September 2006 (UTC)

Actually Makara Sankranti (It is a sanskrit word) is the harvest festival of India. Actually Sanskranti means transmigration of Sun from one Rasi to the other. So, there will be 12 such ones. But The transision of Sun from Dhanu Rasi to Makara Rasi marks the startinf of Uttarayana which means northern movement of Sun. Since Uttarayana is Considered as auspicious time, Makara Sankranthi is celebrated as the begining of that period.

Since India is a mixture of many cultures, at each place it is celebrated in different manner.

• At North India - Makar Sankranti
• At South India,
  • In Kerala and Tamilnadu - [[Sankranthi

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• • In Andhra Pradesh - Sankranthi

Sankranthi is the first most important festival of Telugu people, like Deepavali is for Tamil people. (User:Bsskchaitanya, 13 November 2006)

It's not true that the name is Makar Sankranti in North India and Sankranthi in South India. All North Indians I know also call it Sankranti or its linguistic variants. It is a colloquial shortening of Makar Sankranti. There should be only one article, with the name Makar Sankranti. There are anyway 12 sankrantis, from Mesh Sankranti to Mina Sankranti. deeptrivia (talk) 07:25, 14 January 2007 (UTC)

[edit] merge all articles into Sankranti

i think all the articles can be merged into the main article Sankranti and wherever more details are required, daughter pages can be created.Kalyan 11:23, 23 April 2007 (UTC)

[edit] Date of Sankranthi

Feel that this article needs more information on the indian astronimical basis for celebration : Sankranthi (makar S) marks the change of direction of the sun northwards. So ideally it should coincide with the gregorian calendar solstice. As Bsskchaitanya mentions, this festival marks the transition into capricorn (makara) rasi. But in the gregorian, capricorn start on dec 22 and goes on to jan 20. However, sankranthi falls remarkably consistently on jan 14th (because of solar precession. If corrections are applied, sankranthi can be moved back to dec 22). Am i correct in this? Chakravartula (talk) 12:49, 12 January 2008 (UTC)