Adhika masa is also called as purushottam masa and it’s astrologically speaking it’s an extra month

This month gives many times return to your vrats etc then normal months

Donations to needy gives great benefit in all times but purushottam masa is recommended more

So increase your bhakti towards Srimati Mahalakshmi and Sriman Narayana or your ISTA devata and purushottam masa is an great time to practice it

Radhakrishna

Srimathe Ramanujaya Namaha,

Namaskaram Chinnadurai Swami,

With Acharya ThiruvAdi Bhalam and Velukkudi Sri Krishnan Swami’s Aasirvadham, pulling some information regarding Adhika Maasa from database as follows:

Adhika : means Extra,
Maasa : means Month.

So an Extra Month added in Lunar Calender which happens once in 32.5 months. Adhika Maasa is dedicated for the “Purushottaman” Supreme SriKrishna BhagavAn, So it is called as “Purushotthama Maasa”, and not dedicated to any ISHTA devata, though every month / day / minute / second of ours needs to be dedicated to SriKrishna, since HE is the Premeyam and we all JevAthmas are ONLY HIS PROPERTY and not property of some ISHTA devata.

Some general informations as below, just fyi:

There is no Adhika Masam in the calendars followed in Assam, Bengal, Kerala, and Tamil Nadu as it is based on Solar Calendar.

Now, in Andhra Pradesh, Karnataka, Maharashtra and Gujarat the lunar month begins mid-Sep~mid-Oct’2020 and ends with the new moon or no moon (amavasya). In North India, the lunar month begins and ends with full moon (purnima).

Next Adhika Maasa will be in mid-July~mid-Aug’2023.

However in general, All Tamil speaking people, irrespective of their affiliations, seem to observe the solar calendar, while all Kannada and Telugu speaking people follow the lunar year. However, note that the solar calendar of the Tamils is actually a lunar calendar adjusted on a yearly basis to a solar reckoning.
Thus, the new year always falls in mid-April, but the beginnings of months follow the phases of the moon. The lunar calendar followed in Karnataka and Andhra is also adjusted to a solar calculation, but in a different
way, by the addition of an adhika mAsam periodically.

Adiyen (ElayaAlwar) Srinivasa (DhoddayAcharyar) Dasan.