The modern Indian national calendar is a solar calendar, much like the Gregorian calendar wherein solstices and equinoxes fall on the same date(s) every year. It stands to reason that during the original naming of these months - whenever that happened - they were indeed based on the nakshatiras that coincided with them in some manner. Months in the modern Indian national calendar - despite still carrying names that derive from the nakshatras - do not signify any material correlation. The following list gives the corresponding regions of sky. There are various systems of enumerating the Nakṣatra-s although there are 27-28 days to a sidereal month, by custom only 27 days are used. The Nakṣatra system predates the influence of Hellenistic astronomy on Vedic tradition, which became prevalent from about the 2nd century CE. A list of them is first found in the Vedanga Jyotisha, a text dated to the final centuries BCE. In Ancient Indian astronomy, there are 27 nakshatras, or sectors along the ecliptic.
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