Srabon, Shravan or Shaon ( ''Srabôn, শাওন Shaon'') is the fourth month of the Bengali calendar and one of the two months that make up the

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, locally called "Barsha" ( ''Bôrsha''). Artisans start making idols for

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, etc. in this month.

Etymology

It is named after the star Shrobona ( ''Shrôbôna'').

Events

* 10 Srabon – 187 were killed on Sohagpur massacre in 1378

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. * 22 Srabon – Poet

Rabindranath Tagore Rabindranath Thakur (; anglicised as Rabindranath Tagore ; 7 May 1861 – 7 August 1941) was a Bengalis, Bengali polymath who worked as a poet, writer, playwright, composer, philosopher, social reformer, and painter of the Bengal Renai ...

died in 1348.

References

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