Natural Time-Series Analysis and Vedic Hindu Calendar System

TL;DR

This paper explores the potential of Vedic Hindu lunisolar calendars for time series analysis, highlighting their ability to consider solar and lunar influences and proposing further research directions.

Contribution

It introduces the application of time series analysis to Vedic Hindu calendars, emphasizing their unique dual consideration of solar and lunar activities.

Findings

Hindu calendars can observe natural solar and lunar patterns.

Time series analysis can be applied to Hindu calendar data.

Potential advantages over solar and lunar calendars are discussed.

Abstract

Worldwide, calendars are classified into three categories, solar, lunar, and lunisolar, based on motions of Sun, Moon, and both, respectively. Being lunisolar, the Vedic Hindu calendars are capable of considering both solar and lunar activities. Therefore, these calendars can have potentially an upper hand over solar and lunar calendars. Several natural activities on the earth are due to the influences of the Sun and Moon, and the Hindu calendars are able to observe these patterns. Time series analysis plays a very crucial role in day-to-day applications and is one of the major components in the field of data science. The modern computations (including time series analysis) are performed with the Gregorian (solar) calendars. In this paper, the potential of the Hindu calendar is discussed from the time series analysis point of view. Some logical and experimental comments are discussed in this paper to motivate to dig further possibilities in the domain.