Asarh

The caste venerate the goddess Devi, offering her a virgin she-goat in the month of Asarh

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II R. V. Russell

They propitiate the spirits of their ancestors on the 15th of Asarh (June) with offerings of a little rice and incense.

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II R. V. Russell

Libations of liquor are made to him in the month of Asarh

The Tribes and Castes of the Central Provinces of India Volume II R. V. Russell

My life would be sufficiently long could it number thirty of these first days of _Asarh_ to which the poet of the

Glimpses of Bengal Selected from the Letters of Sir Rabindranath Tagore Rabindranath Tagore 1901

It is this, that on the evening of the first day of _Asarh_ it came on to rain very heavily, in great lance-like showers.

Glimpses of Bengal Selected from the Letters of Sir Rabindranath Tagore Rabindranath Tagore 1901

Yesterday, the first day of _Asarh_, [1] the enthronement of the rainy season was celebrated with due pomp and circumstance.

Glimpses of Bengal Selected from the Letters of Sir Rabindranath Tagore Rabindranath Tagore 1901

The year 1293 [1] will not come again in my life, and, for the matter of that, how many more even of these first days of _Asarh_ will come?

Glimpses of Bengal Selected from the Letters of Sir Rabindranath Tagore Rabindranath Tagore 1901

A thousand years ago Kalidas welcomed that first day of _Asarh_; and once in every year of my life that same day of _Asarh_ dawns in all its glory -- that self-same day of the poet of old Ujjain, which has brought to countless men and women their joys of union, their pangs of separation.

Glimpses of Bengal Selected from the Letters of Sir Rabindranath Tagore Rabindranath Tagore 1901

[Footnote 1: Of the Bengal era.] [Footnote 2: In the _Meghaduta_ (Cloud Messenger) of Kalidas a famous description of the burst of the Monsoon begins with the words: _On the first day of Asarh_.]

Glimpses of Bengal Selected from the Letters of Sir Rabindranath Tagore Rabindranath Tagore 1901

The other Kunbis have the general Hindu rule that weddings are forbidden during the four months from the 11th Asarh Sudi (June) to the 11th Kartik Sudi (October).

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