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saṃvatsara

saṃ-vatsará m. (rarely n.; cf. pari-v°) a full year, a year (having 12 [[TS.]] or 13 [[VS.]] months or 360 days [[ŚBr.]; [AitBr.]; [Suśr.]]; am, ‘for a year’; eṇa ‘after or in course of a year’; e or asya, ‘after or within a year’), [RV.] &c. &c.

a year of the Vikrama era (see above; varṣa is used for the śaka) the first in a cycle of five or six years, [TS.]; [PārGṛ.]; [VarBṛS.]; [BhP.]

the Year personified (having the new and full moon for eyes and presiding over the seasons), [TS.]; [Pur.]

N. of Śiva, [MBh.]