Term
Vikram Samvatविक्रम संवत्
Hindu lunisolar calendar year
The Hindu lunisolar calendar year, running approximately 57 years ahead of the Gregorian calendar. SahiKundli computes Vikram Samvat from the Gregorian date using the standard conversion, accounting for the Vedic new year in mid-April.
Vikram Samvat is one of the traditional Hindu calendar eras, named for the legendary King Vikramaditya and counted from 57 BCE. It runs roughly 56–57 years ahead of the Gregorian (Common Era) year and remains in everyday use across much of North India and Nepal, where it dates festivals and official calendars alike.
The era advances at its new year, which in the reckoning SahiKundli uses falls in mid-April, at the solar new year (Mesha Sankranti). From that point in the year onward the conversion adds 57 to the Gregorian year; before it, the running Samvat year is the Gregorian year plus 56. A date in mid-2026, for example, is Vikram Samvat 2083.
SahiKundli derives the year directly from the Gregorian date by this standard solar conversion and shows it on the panchanga as calendar context. The named year of the sixty-year Samvatsara cycle is not surfaced: that naming is tradition-dependent and would need a verified anchor before it could be shown with confidence.