Ugadi

Ugādi (Telugu: ఉగాది) or Yugādi (Kannada: ಯುಗಾದಿ), also known as Samvatsarādi (lit. 'beginning of the year'), is the first day of the year on the Hindu calendar. It is traditionally celebrated by the Telugu people and the Kannadigas in the Indian states of Andhra Pradesh, Telangana, Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, as well as by diasporan communities elsewhere. The cycle consists of 60 years—each year individually named. It is observed on the first day of the Hindu lunisolar calendar month of Chaitra. This typically falls in late March or early April of the Gregorian calendar. It also sometimes falls on the day after Amavasya with the 27th Nakshatra Revati. Ugadi Day is pivoted on the first new moon after the March equinox.