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'''Siṃha''' is one of the twelve months in the [[Hindu calendar|Indian solar calendar]].<ref name="Lochtefeld2002p72"/><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=[https://archive.org/details/indiancalendarwi00sewerich/page/5 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>

Simha corresponds to the zodiacal sign of [[Leo (constellation)|Leo]], and overlaps with about the second half of August and about the first half of September in the [[Gregorian calendar]].<ref name="Lochtefeld2002p72"/> In Vedic texts, the Simha month is called '''Nabhas''' (IAST: Nabhas), 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=123–128}}</ref> The solar month of Simha overlaps with its lunar month [[Bhadra (Hindu calendar)|Bhadrapada]], 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 Simha marks the end of monsoon season and the start of the autumn for the Indian subcontinent. It is preceded by the solar month of [[Karkaṭa]], and followed by the solar month of [[Kanyā]].<ref name=sewell5/>

The Simha month is called ''Avani'' in the Tamil Hindu calendar.<ref name="Lochtefeld2002p72">{{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/72 72]|url=https://archive.org/details/illustratedencyc0000loch/page/72}}</ref> The ancient and medieval era Sanskrit texts of India vary in their calculations about the duration of Simha, just like they do with other months. For example, the ''Surya Siddhanta'', dated to c. 400 CE, calculates the duration of Simha to be 31 days, 0 hours, 26 minutes and 48 seconds.<ref name=sewell10/> In contrast, the ''Arya Siddhanta'' calculates the duration of the Simha month to be 31 days, 2 hours, 5 minutes and 31 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=[https://archive.org/details/indiancalendarwi00sewerich/page/10 10]–11}}</ref>

The Indian solar month names are significant in epigraphical studies of South Asia. For example, ''simha'' month, along with other solar months such as ''Makara'', are found inscribed in South Indian temples. The Pandya King Jatavarman Sundara-Pandaya II dedicated the Kalisvara temple at [[Kalayar Kovil]] in his 12th year of reign, reads one inscription, on the third ''tithi'' of the second fortnight of the Simha month, which corresponds to Wednesday August 27, 1287.<ref>{{cite book|author=E Hultzsch|title=Epigraphia Indica|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=MxE9AAAAYAAJ&pg=PA277|year= 1906|publisher=Education Society Press|pages=279, 277–280}}</ref>

Simha is also an astrological sign in Indian horoscope systems, corresponding to [[Leo (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>

Simha is also the eighteenth month in the [[Darian calendar]] for the planet [[Mars]], when the [[Sun]] traverses the eastern sector of the constellation Leo as seen from Mars.

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