{"book":"adl0957","page":341,"text":"278\n\nAPPENDIX III\nAfghan Calendar\n\nThe Calendar of the country is based upon the Hijra Era.\nAll Government letters and documents usually bear two dates—\nsolar and lunar. For financial and revenue purposes the solar\nyear, which begins from the 21st of March, is followed.\nThe Afghan solar months are :—\n\nNumber of days First day falls on\n1. Hama (Aries) ... 31 21st of March\n2. Thaur (Taurus) ... 31 21st of April\n3. Jawza (Gemini) ... 32 22nd of May\n4. Saratan (Cancer) ... 31 23rd of June\n5. Asad (Leo) ... 31 24th of July\n6. Sunbula (Virgo) ... 31 24th of August\n7. Mizan (Libra) ... 30 24th of September\n8. Aqrab (Scorpio) ... 30 24th of October\n9. Qaus (Sagittarius) ... 29 24th of November\n10. Jaddi (Capricornus) 29 23rd of December\n11. Dalv (Aquarius) ... 30 21st of January\n12. Hoot (Pisces) ... 30 20th of February\n\nAfghanistan Government Holidays\nFirst of Hamal (March 21st) ... Nihalshani (plantation).\nSixth of Jawza (May 26th) ... Independence day. (King\nMohd. Nadir Shah took Thal on that day)\nAsad, one week for Independence Celebrations. One day\nfor Pashtunistan.\nFirst of Ramazan month.\nThree days on account of Id-ul-Fitr.\n18th of Sunbula ... opening of the Afghan National\nAssembly","chars":1200,"image":"https://storage.googleapis.com/adl-page-images/adl0957/00341.jpg","first_page":1,"last_page":377,"title":"new guide to Afghanistan","permalink":"https://afghanpress.org/book/adl0957/341","canvas":"https://afghanpress.org/iiif/adl0957/canvas/341","source":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/books/adl0957/","source_pdf":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/pdf/adl0957_download.pdf","rights":{"image":{"statement":"Public domain. NYU states: \"All works presented on this website are, unless otherwise indicated, in the public domain. The images available on this website may be freely reproduced, distributed and transmitted by anyone for any purpose, commercial or non-commercial.\"","uri":"http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/NoC-US/1.0/","holder":"New York University Libraries","source":"https://afghanistandl.nyu.edu/about.html","delivery":"Images are served from a copy mirrored by this project, not from NYU's servers, under the reproduction terms above.","endorsement":"This is an independent project. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or reviewed by New York University."},"text":{"statement":"Machine-generated transcription, dedicated to the public domain under CC0 1.0. No warranty of accuracy: see the provenance block on every page.","uri":"https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/","holder":"Steps Ventures"}},"provenance":{"text_produced_by":"gemini-3.1-pro-preview","thinking_level":"low","read_completed":"2026-08-09","per_page_confidence":null,"per_page_confidence_note":"Not recorded during the corpus run. No calibrated per-page score exists, and none is estimated here.","human_reviewed":false,"accuracy_context":"Roughly two thirds of characters agree with a modern printed edition of the same text. Much of the disagreement is editorial, not misreading. Treat the transcription as a finding aid and read the page image before quoting.","primary_source":"The page image. The text is an index into it."}}