Phule Calendar
By: Dr. Shrikant Sadafule
Published by WSIC EBooks Ltd.
Copyright October 11, 2011 by WSIC Ebooks Ltd.
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Dear readers I am very happy to put my first book ‘Phule calendar’ in front of you. In this book I have discussed 4 types of Solar Phule calendar, and a Lunar Phule calendar.
These types of Phule calendar are very easy to remember and can be used for thousands of years. Phule calendar has many other advantages over Gregorian calendar. In this book, I have described 2 types of Solar Phule calendar having 7 days in a week, one of which can be selected for regular use. Considering ISO standards, presently we can not accept calendar having 6 days weeks but for study I have also described 2 types of Phule calendar having 6 days in a week. Most of the people’s initially may not even think of about a new calendar. But now or later they will read this book and once they get assured of scientific base and benefits of this calendar, I hope, they will start to use this calendar. Especially young generation will be very happy to use this calendar.
In this book I have given brief information of other calendars which will help readers to understand different calendars and the changes it has undergone up till now.
I believe that I could write this book due to blessings and love of my dear parents. I am also thankful of all those who helped and supported me while I was writing this book and those who helped me to publish this book.
I dedicate this book to my dear parents, Mother: Kausalya Dagadu Sadafule and Father- Dagadu Shankar Sadafule.
While I was working as a medical officer in primary health centre in Satara district, I had to sign many reports weekly as well as monthly. I had to send reports of family planning programme every week on Monday, while epidemic diseases reports were sent in 4 parts of a month i.e. 1 to 7, 8 to 14, 15 to 21 & 22 to month end. These facts were clearly suggesting that we cannot divide a month in equal no of weeks while using Gregorian calendar. Monthly immunization sessions in different villages were arranged in a month on working days e.g. 1st Friday, 3rd Tuesday etc. Here date of the immunization of a village was changing every month. This was indicating that dates and days of a month cannot correlate with those of other month in the same year or other year of Gregorian calendar. These facts made me to think of a smart calendar, which can answer to above drawbacks of Gregorian calendar.
Whenever I had to change a month page or purchase a new calendar, I always thought of a smart calendar in which, month and years are automatically changed or need of changing month and years is avoided. Last year I brought a new calendar from shop and while going through that calendar, the idea of smart calendar teased my mind again. That day I was free from work, so I tried to design a new calendar, but I was not successful.
Recently, I saw a calendar of one page where all 12 months were printed separately. I also remembered that many calendars have 3 or 4 months on a page. These facts stimulated me to think of a smart calendar again. Then I thought for few days and designed 4 different designs of new solar calendars to which I have named as ‘Phule’ calendar. We can also name these calendars as E-calendar, Smart calendar, Permanent calendar, etc. All types of new solar calendars are given in this book along with a new Lunar Phule calendar.
I am sure that this Phule calendar will become popular very soon due to its simplicity and advantages. Of course, I am happy to put this calendar in front of you, but I will be happier when peoples of all religions and nations will accept this calendar.
Many cultures were developed in different parts of the world and a separate calendar was created and maintained by each culture to count time. Though few of these calendars are now outdated, many of them are still being used for religious festivals by respective religions. Solar,
Lunar and Lunisolar are 3 main types of calendars. Maya calendar, Egyptian calendar etc are examples of solar calendars, while Islamic calendar is pure lunar calendar. Lunisolar calendars have lunar months and years, but the period is adjusted to average solar year by taking an extra lunar month after certain years.
Brief summary of these calendars is given below to get idea of changes in calendars.
Jewish calendar (Lunisolar) 3761 BC
This calendar is based on lunar changes. It has 12 or 13 months in a year. An additional 13th month is added 7 times in a period of 19 years. This calendar is still used for religious purposes.
Chinese calendar (Lunisolar) 2637 BC
This calendar was based on lunar changes. It was having 12 or 13 months in a year first 6 months of 29 days and remaining 6 months of 30 days each. An additional month was taken every 2 or 3 years.
New Year day according to this calendar is regularly celebrated in china.
Maya calendar (Solar) 2000BC
This calendar was first solar calendar. It had 18 divisions of a year, each of 20 days and remaining 5 days were counted as bad days at the end of year. This was 1st known solar calendar as it was having 365 days in a year.
Egyptian calendar (Solar) 1321BC
Though this calendar was based on lunar changes, it was changed to solar type to have 12 months each of 30 days. Remaining 5 days were celebrated as festival days at the end of year. King Tolemi 3 had suggested adding a day to festival days every 4th year to make calendar more accurate. But this suggestion was not accepted.
Babylon calendar (Solar) 1200BC
This calendar was initially based on lunar changes, later this calendar was changed to solar type to have 12 months each of 30 days and an additional month of 30 days every 6th year. A week of 7 days, a day of 24 hours, an hour of 60 minutes, and a minute of 60 seconds have came from this calendar.