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'''Mīna''', or '''Meena''', is a month in the [[Hindu calendar|Indian solar calendar]].<ref name="Lochtefeld2002p497"/><ref name=sewell5>{{cite book|author1=Robert Sewell|author2=Śaṅkara Bālakr̥shṇa Dīkshita|title=The Indian Calendar |url=https://archive.org/details/indiancalendarwi00sewerich |year=1896|publisher=S. Sonnenschein & Company|pages=5–11, 23–29}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|author=Vasudeva Rao|title=Living Traditions in Contemporary Contexts: The Madhva Matha of Udupi|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=-utNEpTZWUkC |year=2002|publisher=[[Orient Blackswan]]|isbn=978-81-250-2297-8|pages=48–53}}</ref> It corresponds to the zodiacal sign of [[Pisces (constellation)|Pisces]], and overlaps with about the later half of March and about the early half of April in the [[Gregorian calendar]].<ref name="Lochtefeld2002p497"/> First day of the Meena month, called as Meena Sankranti generally falls on March 14th.<ref> https://www.timesnownews.com/spiritual/religion/article/meena-sankranti-2021-today-all-you-need-to-know-about-this-significant-day/732142 </ref>

In Vedic texts, the Mina month is called '''Tapasya''' (IAST: Tapasya), but in these ancient texts it has no zodiacal associations.<ref name="Dershowitz2008p123">{{cite book|author1=Nachum Dershowitz|author2=Edward M. Reingold|title=Calendrical Calculations|title-link= Calendrical Calculations |year= 2008|publisher= [[Cambridge University Press]]|isbn=978-0-521-88540-9|pages=[https://archive.org/details/calendricalcalcu00ders/page/n155 123]–128}}</ref> The solar month of Mina overlaps with its lunar month [[Chaitra]], in Hindu lunisolar calendars.<ref>{{cite book|author=Christopher John Fuller|title=The Camphor Flame: Popular Hinduism and Society in India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=To6XSeBUW3oC|year=2004|publisher=[[Princeton University Press]]|isbn=978-0-69112-04-85|pages=291–293}}</ref><ref name=sewell10/> The Mina marks the spring season for the Indian subcontinent. It is preceded by the solar month of [[Kumbha (month)|Kumbha]], and followed by the solar month of [[Meṣa]].<ref name=sewell5/>

The Mina month is called ''Panguni'' in the Tamil Hindu calendar, and is its last month in the traditional calendar.<ref name="Lochtefeld2002p497">{{cite book|author=James G. Lochtefeld|title=The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Hinduism: A-M, N-Z (Vol 1 & 2)|year=2002|publisher=[[The Rosen Publishing Group]]|isbn=978-0-8239-3179-8|pages=[https://archive.org/details/illustratedencyc0000loch/page/497 497]|url=https://archive.org/details/illustratedencyc0000loch/page/497}}</ref> The ancient and medieval era Sanskrit texts of India vary in their calculations about the duration of Mina, just like they do with other months. For example, the ''Surya Siddhanta'' calculates the duration of Mina to be 30 days, 8 hours, 29 minutes and 1 second.<ref name=sewell10/> In contrast, the ''Arya Siddhanta'' calculates the duration of the Mina month to be 30 days, 8 hours, 7 minutes and 42 seconds.<ref name=sewell10>{{cite book|author1=Robert Sewell|author2=Śaṅkara Bālakr̥shṇa Dīkshita|title=The Indian Calendar |url=https://archive.org/details/indiancalendarwi00sewerich |year=1896|publisher=S. Sonnenschein & Company|pages=10–11}}</ref>

The Indian solar month names are significant in epigraphical studies of South Asia. For example, the ''Mina'' month, along with other solar months are found inscribed in medieval era temples. The ''Mina'' month is found inscribed in Chola Empire monuments.<ref>{{cite book|author=E Hultzsch|title=Epigraphia Indica|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=MxE9AAAAYAAJ |year= 1906|publisher=Education Society Press|pages=3, 264–267, 283 with footnotes}}</ref>

Mina (literally, fish) is also an astrological sign in Indian horoscope systems, corresponding to [[Pisces (astrology)]].<ref>{{cite book|author=Bangalore V. Raman|title=Studies in Jaimini Astrology|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gW2DIFHrxfgC |year=2003|publisher=[[Motilal Banarsidass]]|isbn=978-81-208-1397-7|pages=10–19}}</ref>

Mina is also the eighth month in the [[Darian calendar]] for the planet [[Mars]], when the [[Sun]] traverses the central sector of the constellation Pisces as seen from Mars.

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