Nepal Sambat – Celebrated by the Newars, it is
celebrated on the day of Mha Pooja fourth day of tihar. It is said that
on this day, a newar Business man Shanka Dhar Sakhwa paid all the debt
on behalf of the people of Kathmandu Valley, so the newar started
celebrating it as a new life for them. So every year they started
celebrating it as a new year.
Mha Pooja is a Newari festival celebrating the physical self, and on November 4/2013 Monday, the festival day fell on the Newari New Year (Nepal Sambat 1134), Nhu Daya Bhintuna.
न्हु दँया भिन्तुना ११३४