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Pohela Boishakh, the Bengali New Year

Also called: Poila Boishakh, Poila Baisakh, Pahela Baishakh, Noboborsho, Nababarsha, Bangla Nababarsha, Boishakh 1

The first day of Boishakh, the first month of the Bengali year (Bangabda), kept on 14 April in Bangladesh by the fixed calendar of 1966/1987 and on 14 or 15 April in West Bengal and Tripura by the Surya Siddhanta, the morning after the sun enters Aries. Shopkeepers open a new ledger (haal khata) after a Lakshmi-Ganesha puja and feed their customers sweets, families wear new clothes, Kolkata holds prabhat pheris with Tagore's songs, and Dhaka wakes to Chhayanaut's dawn concert at Ramna Batamul and the Mangal Shobhajatra of the Faculty of Fine Arts. The evening before is Chaitra Sankranti, the last day of the year, with the Gajan and Charak of Shiva.

Sources: Pohela Boishakh, Wikipedia; Bengali calendar, Wikipedia; Pahela Baishakh, Banglapedia; Pohela Boishakh 1434 is on 14 April 2027: why Bangladesh and West Bengal differ, Bangla Date Today · see Pohela Boishakh, the Bengali New Year's web

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Haal Khata, the new ledger (Object) Folk · The ledger opened before Ganesha (the haal khata and how the Bengali year began)
The trader's rite of the day in Bengal, Bangladesh, Tripura and the Barak valley.
Mangal Shobhajatra, the new year procession of Dhaka (Concept) Folk
Dhaka's morning procession since 1989.
Shashanka of Gauda (King) Shaiva · The ledger opened before Ganesha (the haal khata and how the Bengali year began)
Credited by some historians with beginning the Bengali era about 594.
Akbar (King) All traditions · The ledger opened before Ganesha (the haal khata and how the Bengali year began)
Tradition credits his Tarikh-e-Ilahi of 1584, counted from 1556, with the Bangla san and the revenue day that became the haal khata.

Pohela Boishakh, the Bengali New Year festival of

Ganesha (God) All traditions · The ledger opened before Ganesha (the haal khata and how the Bengali year began)
The haal khata is opened before him; Tanti Bazar in Dhaka sets up his worship in the middle of the street, and Kolkata's traders carry their ledgers to Kalighat and Dakshineswar.
Lakshmi (Consort) All traditions · The ledger opened before Ganesha (the haal khata and how the Bengali year began)
Worshipped with Ganesha over the new ledger; her name is written on its first page.
Shiva (God) Folk
The Gajan and Charak of Chaitra Sankranti, the evening before the new year, close the old year with his wedding and the sannyasis' penances.

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Pohela Boishakh, Wikipedia Encyclopedia
Bengali calendar, Wikipedia Encyclopedia
Pahela Baishakh, Banglapedia Encyclopedia
Pohela Boishakh 1434 is on 14 April 2027: why Bangladesh and West Bengal differ, Bangla Date Today Encyclopedia