Note 147

147. The number of months in a year, appointed in the Book of God, is nineteen. # 127

The &Baha'i year, in accordance with the &Badi' calendar, consists of nineteen months of nineteen days each, with the addition of certain intercalary days (four in an ordinary year and five in a leap year) between the eighteenth and nineteenth months in order to adjust the calendar to the solar year. The &Bab named the months after certain attributes of God. The &Baha'i New Year, &Naw-Ruz, is astronomically fixed, coinciding with the March equinox (see note 26). For further details, including the names of the days of the week and the months, see the section on the &Baha'i calendar in The &Baha'i World, volume XVIII.