Bikrami Calendar (Vikram Samvat)

The Bikrami calendar, also called Vikram Samvat or Vikrami, is the Punjabi and Nepali lunisolar calendar recorded in this atlas as its own calendar. Wikipedia describes it as a Hindu calendar historically used in the Indian subcontinent and still used in several Indian states and Nepal, and notes that it is an official calendar of Nepal. It is recorded as its own calendar entity so that the holidays and festivals reckoned by it can be grouped and compared in one place, while each holiday entry keeps its own dating facts and sources.