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{{For|the Hungarian politician|Kálmán Kánya}}
'''Kanyā''' is one of the twelve months in the [[Hindu calendar|Indian solar calendar]].<ref name="Lochtefeld2002p533"/><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=cxxi, 5–11, 23–29, 150}}</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>

Kanya corresponds to the zodiacal sign of [[Virgo (constellation)|Virgo]], and overlaps with about the second half of September and about the first half of October in the [[Gregorian calendar]].<ref name="Lochtefeld2002p533"/> In Vedic texts, the Kanya month is called '''Nabhasya''' (IAST: Nabhasya), 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 Kanya overlaps with its lunar month [[Ashvin]], 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/> It marks the start of harvests and festival season across the Indian subcontinent. It is preceded by the solar month of [[Siṃha]], and followed by the solar month of [[Tulā]].<ref name=sewell5/>

The Kanya month is called ''Purattasi'' in the Tamil Hindu calendar.<ref name="Lochtefeld2002p533">{{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/533 533]|url=https://archive.org/details/illustratedencyc0000loch/page/533}}</ref> The ancient and medieval era Sanskrit texts of India vary in their calculations about the duration of Kanya, just like they do with other months. For example, the ''Surya Siddhanta'', dated to c. 400 CE, calculates the duration of Kanya to be 30 days, 10 hours, 35 minutes and 36 seconds.<ref name=sewell10/> In contrast, the ''Arya Siddhanta'' calculates the duration of the Kanya month to be 30 days, 10 hours, 57 minutes and 36 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, ''Kanya'' month, along with other solar months, are found inscribed in medieval era Hindu temples.<ref>{{cite book|author=E Hultzsch|title=Epigraphia Indica|url= https://books.google.com/books?id=MxE9AAAAYAAJ |year= 1906|publisher =Education Society Press|pages=7, 280}}</ref>

Kanya is also an astrological sign in Indian horoscope systems, corresponding to [[Virgo (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>

Kanya is also the twentieth month in the [[Darian calendar]] for the planet [[Mars]], when the [[Sun]] traverses the eastern part of the constellation Virgo as seen from Mars.

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