Grishma

 ( Hindu Calendar ) 

Grishma () the Sanskrit word meaning summer.

This is one of the six seasons (ritu), each lasting two months, the others being: Vasanta (spring), Varsha (monsoon), Sharada (autumn), Hemanta (pre-winter), and Shishira (winter).

Klaus K. Klostermaier (2010). 9780791480113, State University of New York Press. . ISBN 9780791480113

It falls in the two months of Jyeshta and Ashadha of the Hindu calendar, or April and May of the Gregorian calendar.

It is preceded by Vasanta, the spring season, and followed by Varsha, the Wet season.

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Sources

• Selby, Martha Ann (translator). The Circle of Six Seasons, Penguin, New Delhi, 2003,
• Raghavan, V. Ṛtu in Sanskrit literature, Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri Kendriya Sanskrit Vidyapeetha, Delhi, 1972.

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