Sharada
# Sharada

Sharada or Sarada (Sanskrit for "autumnal") may refer to:

* the season spanning the months of Bhadrapada, Ashvin, and Kārtika of the traditional lunar Hindu calendar
* Another name for the Hindu goddess Saraswati
* Sharada script, abugida writing system
* Sharada (Unicode block), a Unicode block of Sharada script characters

## Geography

* Sarada River in Andhra Pradesh, India
* Sharda River, downstream renaming mainly in Uttar Pradesh of (Maha)Kali River on Nepal's western border with Uttarakhand, India
* Sharad Khola tributary to Babai River, Dang and Bardiya districts, Nepal

## Films

* Sharada (1942 film), in Hindi
* Sharada (1957 film), in Hindi
* Sarada (1962 film), in Tamil
* Sharada (1973 film), in Telugu
* Sharada (1981 film), in Hindi
* Sarada (unreleased film), in Telugu

## Literature

* Sarada (novel), an 1892 Malayalam novel
* Sharada (magazine), a Nepali literary magazine
* Sharada (Malayalam women's magazine), an Indian magazine in Malayalam language

## People

* Sharada (born 1945), Indian actress
* Sarada Devi or Sarada Ma (1853–1920), wife and spiritual counterpart of Hindu mystic Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
* Nerella Sharada, Indian politician
* Princess Sharada Shah of Nepal (1943-2001), princess of Nepal
* Sharada Sharma, poet and writer

## Other

* Sarada Uchiha (うちは サラダ), a main character in the manga and anime series Boruto: Naruto Next Generations
* Sharada Peeth, a temple in Sharda, Kashmir
* "Sharada", a song by Skye Sweetnam on her album Noise from the Basement
* Sarada (lizard), a genus of lizards
