Kadmi calendar community
A living tradition within Parsi Zoroastrians. The disagreements in the sources are shown rather than settled.
Kadmi calendar community is a living tradition within Parsi Zoroastrians. Also written Qadimi, Gadimi, Kadimi.
Origin
Founding date given as 1746. avesta.org states: 'In 1746 a group of priests and laymen in Surat adopted the Irani calendar on the assumption that it represented an older tradition.' The Kadmi calendar runs one month ahead of the Shahenshahi. Widely reported background — that an Iranian priest, Jamasp Peshotan Velati, travelled to India around 1720 and found a one-month discrepancy between the Iranian and Parsi calendars, and that a body of Parsis in and around Surat adjusted their calendars on 6 June 1745 — comes from community journalism and is recorded as reported, not verified. The underlying issue is the kabisa (intercalation) controversy.
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Citation
English
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John Shaqi. “Kadmi calendar community.” English version. 11 August 2026. https://johnshaqi.com/articles/sect-kadmi-calendar-community.
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