A lunar month, about January to February
Sanskrit name of a lunar month, from the nakshatra (star) near its full moon: Magha.
Magha falls in about January to February on the solar calendar, and is the month of dawn bathing at Prayag, Vasant Panchami and Maha Shivratri. The exact dates move a little each year because the Hindu calendar follows the moon.
What a gatha is, the five short chants Theravada Buddhists recite, and the Dhammapada's 26 chapters, with each text linked where the story mentions it.
Guru Ravidas Jayanti is the Gurpurab of Magha Purnima. This article sets out the day, what we know of the Guru's hymns, and how late the early accounts are.
Maha Shivratri is the dark fourteenth night of Magha, kept with a fast and vigil. The article sets out the Shiva Purana's rite and which stories came later.
A solar harvest festival marking the Sun's entry into Makara and its northward turn, kept with river baths, kites and sesame-jaggery sweets.
Rishabhanatha, the first of the twenty-four Tirthankaras, taught humanity the arts of civilization before renouncing his kingdom to attain liberation.
The story from the Padma Purana of Malyavan and Pushpavati liberated from a ghostly demonic curse by observing Jaya Ekadashi in Magha Shukla Paksha.