navasaMvatsaraH shubhamastu navachaitanyaM dadAtu cha
<!--QuoteBegin-Viren+Mar 27 2009, 10:19 PM-->QUOTE(Viren @ Mar 27 2009, 10:19 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->the beginning of the New Year, new month and <b>new day for Hindus falls on Chaitra Shukla Pratipada.</b>
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One needs to add some rider here, so it is known that 1-Chaitra is a new year for some Hindu-s but not all.
for shaka saMvat, chaitra is the first month. So new year of this calendar is chaitra varSha pratipadA.
for traditional vikrama saMvat however, chaitra is the last month whereas the first month happens to be vaishAkha.
Since South India minus probably TN, goes by shaka saMvat, there the Hindu new year is celebrated on 1-Chaitra. So Hindus from mahArAShTra, karNATaka and Andhra traditions call 1-Chaitra as the Hindu New Year - yugAdi, pAhwa etc. However we must also remember that a substantial number of Hindus, actually larger number of Hindus, observe the traditional vikrama saMvat and celebrate the new year not on beginning of chaitra, but from vaishAkha, i.e. next month.
Hindus of North, West, and East, including Nepal, Bengal, Punjab, Kashmir and Assam etc., celebrate "their" Hindu New year as Vaishakhi, Poila Boisaka, Nepali New year, Bihua etc.
UP is a mixture. For reasons unknown, while UP follows vikrama saMvata and not shaka saMvata, here the Hindus have adjusted vikrama saMvat to start from chaitra month rather than vaishAkha. So UP celebrates both the Hindu New Years. In west, especially Gujarat, they begin their calendar with kArtika month! So the Gujarati Hindu New Year starts with 1-kArtika.
<!--QuoteBegin-Viren+Mar 27 2009, 10:19 PM-->QUOTE(Viren @ Mar 27 2009, 10:19 PM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->the beginning of the New Year, new month and <b>new day for Hindus falls on Chaitra Shukla Pratipada.</b>
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One needs to add some rider here, so it is known that 1-Chaitra is a new year for some Hindu-s but not all.
for shaka saMvat, chaitra is the first month. So new year of this calendar is chaitra varSha pratipadA.
for traditional vikrama saMvat however, chaitra is the last month whereas the first month happens to be vaishAkha.
Since South India minus probably TN, goes by shaka saMvat, there the Hindu new year is celebrated on 1-Chaitra. So Hindus from mahArAShTra, karNATaka and Andhra traditions call 1-Chaitra as the Hindu New Year - yugAdi, pAhwa etc. However we must also remember that a substantial number of Hindus, actually larger number of Hindus, observe the traditional vikrama saMvat and celebrate the new year not on beginning of chaitra, but from vaishAkha, i.e. next month.
Hindus of North, West, and East, including Nepal, Bengal, Punjab, Kashmir and Assam etc., celebrate "their" Hindu New year as Vaishakhi, Poila Boisaka, Nepali New year, Bihua etc.
UP is a mixture. For reasons unknown, while UP follows vikrama saMvata and not shaka saMvata, here the Hindus have adjusted vikrama saMvat to start from chaitra month rather than vaishAkha. So UP celebrates both the Hindu New Years. In west, especially Gujarat, they begin their calendar with kArtika month! So the Gujarati Hindu New Year starts with 1-kArtika.