Pohela Boishakh Shuvo Noboborsho Photo Cards 1427

Pohela Boishakh Shuvo Noboborsho Photo Cards 1427. New Year’s Day is observed on January 1st, the first day of the year on the modern Gregorian calendar as well as the Julian calendar used in the Roman Empire. Traditionally, as a date in the Gregorian Calendar of Christendom, New Year’s Day liturgically marked the Feast of the Circumcision of Christ and is still observed as such in the Anglican Church and Lutheran Church. However, with most countries now using the Gregorian calendar as their main calendar, New Year’s Day is the closest thing to being the world’s only truly global public holiday, often celebrated with fireworks at the stroke of midnight as the new year starts.

Pohela Boishakh Shuvo Noboborsho Photo Cards 1427

Bengali New Year (Bengali: Nôbobôrsho) or Pôhela Boishakh (Pôhela Boishakh or Pôela Boishakh), occurring on the 14th April or 15th April, is the first day of the Bengali calendar, celebrated in both Bangladesh and the Indian state of West Bengal, and in Bengali communities in the other Indian states, including Assam, Tripura, Jharkhand and Odisha. It coincides with the New Year’s Days of numerous Southern Asian calendars.

In Bengali, Pohela stands for ‘first’ and Boishakh is the first month of Bengali calendar. Bengali New Year is referred to in Bengali as “New Year” (Bengali: Noboborsho, from Sanskrit Nava(new)varṣa a (year)) or “First of Boishakh” (Bengali: Pohela Boishakh or Pôhela Boishakh). Nobo means new and Borsho means year.

The Bengali calendar is closely tied to the Hindu Vedic solar calendar, based on the Surya Siddhanta. As with many other variants of the Hindu solar calendar, the Bengali calendar commences in mid-April of the Gregorian year. The first day of the Bengali year, therefore, coincides with the mid-April new year in Mithila, Assam, Burma, Cambodia, Kerala, Manipur, Nepal, Odisha, Sri Lanka, Tamil Nadu, and Thailand.

King Shoshana’s of ancient Bengal, who ruled approximately between 590 CE and 625 CE, is credited with starting the Bengali era. His kingdom encompassed West Bengal, Bangladesh and parts of Bihar, Odisha, and Assam. The starting point of the Bengali era is estimated to be on Monday, 12 April 594 in the Julian calendar and Monday, 14 April 594 in the proleptic Gregorian calendar. The Bengali calendar is derived from the Hindu solar calendar, which is itself based on the Surya Siddhanta.