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Happy New Year! Wasn't that yesterday though? It is a little confusing this year!
Yesterday was Nepali New Year 2069 celebration day....Happy New Year! Wasn't that yesterday though? It is a little confusing this year!
Yesterday was Nepali New Year 2069 celebration day....
Yesterday was Nepali New Year 2069 celebration day....
They are years ahead of us.
Anyways, Shuvo Noboborsho everyone.
Shubho Noboborsho to bro Al Zakir too, and everybody else.
Happy New Year! Wasn't that yesterday though? It is a little confusing this year!
Shubho Noboborsho!
Interestingly Bangla calendar day starts from sunrise.
He is probably talking about Indian bangla new year. There is a difference, ours has been fixed on 14th of April for some years but theirs is not.
Happy New Year! Wasn't that yesterday though? It is a little confusing this year!
Shubho Noboborsho!
Interestingly Bangla calendar day starts from sunrise.
He is probably talking about Indian bangla new year. There is a difference, ours has been fixed on 14th of April for some years but theirs is not.
According to the popular hypotheses about the beginning of Bengali calendar, Mughal Emperor Akbar, who ruled from 1556 CE until 1605 CE, and one of his councilors Fatehullah Shirazi are credited with introducing the new Bengali calendar for tax collection purposes. Before the introduction of the Bengali calendar, during Muslim rule in India agricultural and land taxes were collected according to the Islamic Hijri calendar. However, as the Hijri Calendar is a lunar calendar, the agricultural year did not always coincide with the fiscal year. Therefore, farmers were hard-pressed to pay taxes out of season. In order to streamline tax collection, Emperor Akbar ordered a reform of the calendar. Accordingly, Amir Fatehullah Shirazi, a renowned scholar of the time and the royal astronomer, formulated a new calendar based on the lunar Hijri and solar Hindu calendars. The resulting Bangla calendar was introduced following the harvesting season when the peasantry would be in a relatively sound financial position. In keeping with the harvesting season, this new calendar initially came to be known as the Harvest Calendar, or ফসলী সন Fôsholi Shôn. During the reign of the Mughals, the Bengali Calendar was officially implemented throughout the empire. The month-names continued to be as per Hindu-astrological nomenclature. Akbar did not start the Bengali calendar with a value 1, but instead jump-started it with the then existing [Hijri calendar] value.[1]
Another study suggests, Bengali calendar actually might have started with a value one during the reign of King Shoshangko of ancient Bengal, who ruled approximately between 590 CE and 625 CE. The king is credited with starting the Bengali era.[2] His kingdom encompassed West Bengal, Bangladesh and parts of Bihar, Orissa and Assam. The starting point of the Bengali era is estimated to be on Monday, 12 April 593 in the Julian Calendar and Monday, 14 April 593 in the proleptic Gregorian calendar. The Bengali calendar is derived from the Hindu solar calendar, which is itself based on the Surya Siddhanta.