The  ‪#‎Nanakshahi‬ calendar is a tropicaL solar calendAr thaT was adopTed by the Shiromani GURDWARA Prabhandak Committee 2 cOnsider the dates 4 imPortant SIKH EVENTS.

It was designed by Pal Singh Purewal to replace the Saka calendar & has bEEn in use since 1998. The epoch of this calendar is the birth of the first Sikh Guru Nanak Dev Ji in 1469. 

New Year's Day falls annually on what is March 14 in the Gregorian Western calendar.

The calendar is accepted in abouT 90% of the Gurdwaras throughout the world. There is some controversy  about the acceptance of the calendar among certain orthodox sectors of the Sikh world. Some orthodox organizations and factions have not accepted it including many orders dating from the time of the Gurus such as Damdami Taksal, Buddha Dal Nihungs, Takhats etc.

Features of the new calendar:

Features of the new calendar :

A tropical solar calendar.

Called Nanakshahi after Guru Nanak (founder of Sikhism).

Year one is the year of Guru Nanak's birth (1469 CE). As an example, April 2014 CE is Nanakshahi 546.

Uses most of the mechanics of the Western calendar.

Year length is same as Western calendar (365 days 5 hours 48 minutes 45 seconds).

Contains 5 months of 31 days followed by 7 months of 30 days.

Leap year every 4 years in which the last month (Phagun) has an extra day.

Approved by Akal Takht in 2003 but later amended.

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THE FOUNDER OF SIKHISM WAS #GURU NANAK DEV JI

Guru Nanak Dev Ji was born in 1469 at Rai Bhoi di Talwandi now known as Nankana Sahib and It is situated in Shekhupura district of Pakistan near Lahore. Guru Nanak Dev Ji father’s name is Shri Kalyan Chand Mehta a Bedi Kshatriya by caste who was working as a revenue official with Rai Bular the local land lord of Talwandi. Guru Nanak Dev Ji mother’s name is Mata Tripta ji.

There is some confusion about the date of birth of Shri Guru Nanak Dev. According to Puratan Janam Sakhi he was born on the third bright day of the moon of Baisakh month of Indian calendar. Most historians agree with this date. Yet the actual celebration is done on Kartik Poornima day.

As a small child, Guru Nanak Dev Ji would not weep like other children but was always smiling in his cradle as if he had come to distribute happiness. As he grew up and started walking, he would give away whatever he could lay his hands upon to the children, beggars or saints.

He was born a Hindu. Stories of Nanak’s early life show him to be a generous and pious man, unhappy about the religious practices around him. Guru Nanak Dev Ji received his call from God when he was aged 30, when he received the knowledge that it was neither the Hindu nor the Muslim practices which were right, but knowing and serving God and living honestly. He began to teach the equality of everyone man/woman, black/white, rich/poor in the eyes of God.

People should be respected for the light       which illumines them, not caste or birth.                                                                          #Guru Granth Sahib 349