In rural Bengali communities of India, the Bengali calendar is credited to 'Bikromaditto', like many other parts of India and Nepal. The Hindu Vikrami calendar is named after king Vikramaditya and starts in 57 BC. The ancient Indian culture developed a sophisticated time keeping methodology and calendars for Vedic rituals. Jyotisha, one of the six ancient Vedangas, was the Vedic era field of tracking and predicting the movements of astronomical bodies in order to keep time. Hindus developed a calendar system in ancient times. The term Bangabda (Bangla year) is found too in two Shiva temples many centuries older than Akbar era, suggesting that a Bengali calendar existed long before Akbar's time. Some historians attribute the Bengali calendar to the 7th century Hindu king Shashanka. Among the Bengali community in India, the traditional Indian Hindu calendar continues to be in use, and it sets the Hindu festivals The revised version of the Bengali calendar was officially adopted in Bangladesh in 1987. It is 594 less than the AD or CE year in the Gregorian calendar if it is before PГґhela BГґishakh, or 593 less if after PГґhela BГґishakh. The Bengali era is called Bengali Sambat (BS) or the Bengali year ( а¦¬а¦ѕа¦‚а¦Іа¦ѕ а¦ёа¦Ё Bangla SГґn, а¦¬а¦ѕа¦‚а¦Іа¦ѕ а¦ёа¦ѕа¦І Bangla sal, or Bangabda) has a zero year that starts in 593/594 CE. The New Year in the Bengali calendar is known as Pohela Boishakh. A revised version of the calendar is the national and official calendar in Bangladesh and an earlier version of the calendar is followed in the Indian states of West Bengal, Tripura and Assam. The Bengali Calendar or Bangla Calendar ( Bengali: а¦¬а¦™а§Ќа¦—а¦ѕа¦¬а§Ќа¦¦, lit.'Baб№…gДЃbda'), colloquially ( Bengali: а¦¬а¦ѕа¦‚а¦Іа¦ѕ а¦ёа¦Ё, romanized: Baб№…gla Ељon), is a luni-solar calendar used in the Bengal region of the Indian subcontinent. Without proper rendering support, you may see question marks, boxes, or other symbols.

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