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Sharad/Sarath/Sharath ( sa, शरद्)is the autumn season or ritu in the
Hindu calendar The Hindu calendar, Panchanga () or Panjika is one of various lunisolar calendars that are traditionally used in the Indian subcontinent and Southeast Asia, with further regional variations for social and Hindu religious purposes. They adopt ...
. It roughly corresponds to the western months of mid-September to mid-November. Sharad is preceded by Varsha and followed by Hemant. The Hindu calendar contains six seasons ( Vasant,
Grishma Grishma is short for Grishmarutu, the Sanskrit word meaning summer. This is one of the six seasons ( ritu), each lasting two months, the others being: Vasant (spring), Varsha (monsoon), Sharad (autumn), Hemanta (pre-winter), and Shishira (win ...
, Varsha, Sharad, Hemant,
Shishir In the Hindu calendar Shishir is the Ritu or season related to winters and cold. It is the month of Magha and Phalguna or mid January to mid March in the calendar year. It is also one among the many names of the Hindu God Lord Vishnu ...
) with two months each. Sharad is characterized by clear skies, after three months of rains. Sharad
Navratri Navaratri is an annual Hindu festival observed in the honour of the goddess Durga. It spans over nine nights (and ten days), first in the month of Chaitra (March/April of the Gregorian calendar), and again in the month of Sharada. It is ...
, are the first nine auspicious days of the season,
Sharad Purnima Sharad Purnima (also known as Kumara Purnima, Kojagari Purnima, Navanna Purnima, Kojagrat Purnima or Kaumudi Purnima) is a religious festival celebrated on the full moon day of the Hindu lunar month of Ashvin (September to October), marking ...
, the full moon day in the month of
Ashwin Ashvin or Ashwin or Ashwan (; bn, আশ্বিন; hi, आश्विन; or, ଆଶ୍ୱିନ; Malay/ Indonesian: ''Aswin''; Thai: ''Asawin''), also known as Aswayuja, is the seventh month of the lunisolar Hindu calendar, the solar ...
, is celebrated as the day of divine Rasalila by Shri Krishna. That is the brightest full moon night of the year. Sharad is also a Hindu name given to the grandchildren of Seva or the child of gods and it is also a month of Hindu calendar


Famous people from the name Sharad

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Sharad Pawar Sharad Govindrao Pawar (Marathi pronunciation: �əɾəd̪ pəʋaːɾ born 12 December 1940) is an Indian politician. He has served as the Chief Minister of Maharashtra on four occasions. He has held the posts of Minister of Defence and Mini ...
– President of the
Nationalist Congress Party The Nationalist Congress Party ( NCP) is one of the nine national parties in India. The party generally supports Indian nationalism and Gandhian secularism. It is the largest opposition party in Maharashtra and is also a significant party in ...
* Sharad Singh BhandariNepalese politician * Sharad Bansode – Indian politician * Sharad Anantrao Joshi – Member of the
Parliament of India The Parliament of India (IAST: ) is the supreme legislative body of the Republic of India. It is a bicameral legislature composed of the president of India and two houses: the Rajya Sabha (Council of States) and the Lok Sabha (House of the P ...
representing
Maharashtra Maharashtra (; , abbr. MH or Maha) is a state in the western peninsular region of India occupying a substantial portion of the Deccan Plateau. Maharashtra is the second-most populous state in India and the second-most populous country sub ...
in the
Rajya Sabha The Rajya Sabha, constitutionally the Council of States, is the upper house of the bicameral Parliament of India. , it has a maximum membership of 245, of which 233 are elected by the legislatures of the states and union territories using sin ...
* Sharad Yadav – Politician * Sharad Kumar Awasthi – former MLA from Ram Nagar * Sharad Tripathi – Member of the
Bharatiya Janata Party The Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP; ; ) is a political party in India, and one of the two major Indian political parties alongside the Indian National Congress. Since 2014, it has been the ruling political party in India under Narendra Mod ...
(9 January 1972 – 30 June 2021) * Sharad Ranpise – Member of the
Indian National Congress The Indian National Congress (INC), colloquially the Congress Party but often simply the Congress, is a political party in India with widespread roots. Founded in 1885, it was the first modern nationalist movement to emerge in the British ...
. * Sharad Dighe – former member of the Indian National Congress from the Bombay North Central (1924–2002) Film and Television * Sharad Kapoor – Indian actor *
Sharad Talwalkar Sharad Talwalkar (1 November 1918 - 22 August 2001) was an Indian film and television actor who led the Marathi film industry and theatre for many years. He had performed in more than 180 Marathi films. Childhood He had a passion for acting from ...
– Indian
Marathi language Marathi (; ''Marāṭhī'', ) is an Indo-Aryan language predominantly spoken by Marathi people in the Indian state of Maharashtra. It is the official language of Maharashtra, and additional official language in the state of Goa. It is one o ...
film and television actor * Sharad Vyas – Television actor * Sharad Ponkshe – Indian actor and writer * Sharad Sharma – Indian
cartoonist A cartoonist is a visual artist who specializes in both drawing and writing cartoons (individual images) or comics (sequential images). Cartoonists differ from comics writers or comic book illustrators in that they produce both the literary and ...
*
Sharad Kelkar Sharad Kelkar (born 7 October 1976) is an Indian film actor and voice artist from Mumbai, Maharashtra. He works primarly in Hindi films, Marathi films. Kelkar has appeared as lead in television serials for brief period of time, now he do web s ...
– Indian actor * Sharad Gogate – Marathi publisher and writer * Sharad Haskar – Photographer * Sharad Malhotra – Indian film and television actor * Sharad Joshi – Indian poet, writer,
satirist This is an incomplete list of writers, cartoonists and others known for involvement in satire – humorous social criticism. They are grouped by era and listed by year of birth. Included is a list of modern satires. Under Contemporary, 1930-1960 ...
and a
dialogue Dialogue (sometimes spelled dialog in American English) is a written or spoken conversational exchange between two or more people, and a literary and theatrical form that depicts such an exchange. As a philosophical or didactic device, it is ...
and scriptwriter in Hindi films and television (1931–1991) Law and order *
Sharad Arvind Bobde Sharad Arvind Bobde (born 24 April 1956) is an Indian judge who served as the 47th Chief Justice of India from 18 November 2019 to 23 April 2021. He is a former Chief Justice of the Madhya Pradesh High Court. He is also serving as the Chance ...
– 47 Chief Justice of India * Sharad Kumar – former
Indian Police Service The Indian Police Service ( IPS) is a civil service under the All India Services. It replaced the Indian Imperial Police in 1948, a year after India became independent from the British Raj. Along with the Indian Administrative Service (IAS ...
(IPS) officer Medicine * Sharad Panday – Indian heart surgeon * Sharad Vaidya – Indian surgeon * Sharad Kumar Dixit – Indian born American
plastic surgeon Plastic surgery is a surgical specialty involving the restoration, reconstruction or alteration of the human body. It can be divided into two main categories: reconstructive surgery and cosmetic surgery. Reconstructive surgery includes craniof ...
Sports * Sharad Diwadkar – Indian
Cricket Cricket is a bat-and-ball game played between two teams of eleven players on a field at the centre of which is a pitch with a wicket at each end, each comprising two bails balanced on three stumps. The batting side scores runs by s ...
er * Sharad Rao – Indian Cricketer * Sharad Hazare – Indian Cricketer (1945–2022) * Sharad Kumar – Indian
Paralympic The Paralympic Games or Paralympics, also known as the ''Games of the Paralympiad'', is a periodic series of international multisport events involving athletes with a range of physical disabilities, including impaired muscle power and impaired ...
high jumper * Sharad Vesawkar – Nepalese Cricketer Entrepreneur * Sharad Devarajan – CEO of Gotham Comics * Sharad Sagar – Indian
social entrepreneur Social entrepreneurship is an approach by individuals, groups, start-up companies or entrepreneurs, in which they develop, fund and implement solutions to social, cultural, or environmental issues. This concept may be applied to a wide range of ...
and the Founder and CEO of Dexterity Global


References

*Selby, Martha Ann (translator). ''The Circle of Six Seasons'', 2003, * Raghavan, V. ''Ṛtu in Sanskrit literature'', Shri Lal Bahadur Shastri from Nepal, 1972. Hindu calendar Autumn {{Hinduism-stub