Dear All: Namaste. I think we are putting together many unrelated issues. Nepal Sambat is Lunar calendar designed for cultural/Dharmic events like Dasain, Tihar, Buddha Jayanti etc. Bikram Sambat is Solar calendar designed for seasonal events like planting, travel etc. They are not competing and we need both. We all Nepalese should be proud of both Sambats and use them. Worst thing we can do it make it a communal issue. Also let us also note that Bikram Sambat is more antique than Grgorian calendar gloifying our past. It will be really funny if we criticise Bikram Sambat as foreign (across the border) and adopt Gregorian calendar. On the other hand the Nepal Sambat initiated by Shakhwal of Kathmandu is not about some great King but about an ordinary Nepali making a huge contribution to the nation. Even though the myth may be only half truth, yet let us recognize the power of its symbolism. However, the new adopted Gregorian calendar is Solar and competes with Bikram Sambat. Thus we need to conserve Bikram Sambat along with the use of Gregorian to come in par with International system. The Solar calendar needs adjusting time to time. For example, Gregorian caledar uses leap year etc. to do that. Bikram Sambat also uses such corrections but is not well done. Therefore the issue of dropping one whole month to make a proper adjustment has been raised. However, it can be done better. First, there must be a good home work for such adjustment. Second, it need to be advertised at least one year before applying. Third, it is not necessary to drop a whole month. It can be done by merely lessening the days in each of the 12 months. For example, if each of the 12 months have only 28 days then we will loose almost one month, without dropping Chaita month and going berserk. Thanks.

Pine77 · Apr 28, 2009 9:35 PM

Fu#k the Nepal Sambat and Bikram Sambat, let’s start Isawi Sambaat 2009 AD. At least we don’t have to convert the date. I Don’t know what’s wrong with you guys, a country where there is no water to drink, no electricity, no proper health care, no roads, no hygienic food, no…………… I can go on. Why do u fu@ers bring this stupid issues?????

bisal · Apr 29, 2009 1:42 AM

All over the word, rulers come with their own lunatic ideas, for those lunatic ideas we have the most wonderful things. That was a mistake?? Or an Excessive use of power? Both. That happened to Nepal too and implemented B.S. calendar. Power is exercised; it became part of our life after a long use. I agree on some commentator that if Nepal sambat is scientifically better than B.S. we must undo it; otherwise we need to move on. As most of us have a question is this the major issue for Nepal at this moment in the "to do list”, then we must solve it? Or just to distract Nepali from major issues?????  Or just to divide and RULE theory of Maoist. As the unification ended the ruler wanted a language to be communicated and chose the one the ruler spoke and named it Nepali. I think it has similar issue as introducing myself as Hindu, there was no Hindu religion.  So what should I say in my religious belief????    

syanjali · May 1, 2009 9:07 AM