Tripuri calendar

The Tripuri people have a calendar called "Tring" or Twipra Era, commencing from 590 AD.

History

According to Rajmala King Himti (also known as Jujaru Pha or Hamtor Pha), the 118th king of the Twipra Kingdom, was the first king to annex and subjugate a part of Bengal, and to mark the victory the Tring (Twipra Era) was introduced.

Days

Twipra Bisi - days (Sal):
#Koktisal = Sunday,
#Tangsal = Monday,
#Kraksal = Tuesday,
#Srangsal = Wednesday,
#Sangrangsal = Thursday,
#Phasal = Friday,
#Chasal = Saturday.

Months

Twipra Bisi - Months (Tal):
#Talhing: December - January - 30sal
#Talrung: January - February - 30sal
#Talsrang: February - March - 30sal
#Tallang: March - April - 30sal(Leap yea-31sal)
#Taltung: April - May - 31sal
#Talkran: May - June - 31sal
#Tayung: June - July - 31Sal
#Taltuk: July - August - 31Sal
#Talbang: August - September - 31Sal
#Talumai: September - October - 31Sal
#Taluang: October - November - 31Sal
#Talbung: November - December - 31Sal

New Year

The new year day of the Tring is based on the traditional "Huk" (Shifting cultivation), i.e. the "Pousa" of Saka Era or the 22nd December.

Revival of Twipra Era

Under the TTAADC government and IPFT (Indigenous People Front of Tripura) and when INPT came to power, the Twipra Era was revived in 2001.

To commemorate the "Tripurabda", the Tripura Tribal Areas Autonomous District Council (TTAADC) authorities had organized a three-day festival "Tring festival", which concluded at the TTAADC headquarters Khumulwng in West Tripura [http://www.westtripura.nic.in] . Tripura Governor Lt Gen K. M. Seth (retired), who inaugurated the festival, the first of its kind in the state, said December 22 every year was regarded as the day one of "Twipra Bisi" (that is Tripura era), which was coinciding with the end part of jhum harvesting (shifting cultivation). The initiative to revive "Tripurabda" by the tribals since 1991 came to the limelight with the return of the era in the State Government calendar and diaries, the era still awaited official recognition in the records of the State Government’s Revenue Department and the Agartala Municipal Council, from where it was removed 36 and 29 years ago respectively. Tripura Tribal Welfare Minister and veteran Tribal leader Aghore Debbarma, also the member of the CPI (M) central committee, told UNI here that the State Government had no problem to use the Tripura era in its all records and official papers, if the people of the state wanted. Debbarma was also the chief guest in the inaugural function of the Tring festival, organised by the TTAADC, now controlled by the Indigenous People’s Front of Twipra (IPFT), a tribal-based party. The IPFT, an arch rival of the CPI (M), had wrested the TTAADC from the Left Front during the April-May election. When the process was on to revive the "Tripurabda", tribal intellectuals, historians and political parties leaders plunged into a controversy whether the "Tripurabda" would be linked with the "Bangabda" or "Shakabda". [http://www.northeastvigil.in/archives/?p=11459] [http://www.nenanews.com/OT%20Jan.7-%20Jan.21,%2001/oh4.htm]

ee also

*Tripuri
*Twipra

External links

* [http://www.twipra.com/TwipraEra/display.aspx?adv=173659-nk&rec=ac62793-md901381-lq-736911 Tring Calendar info at Twipra.com]
* [http://tripuranews.co.uk/link%20page/kok_calendar.php Tring 1417 T.E. Calendar]