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THE CHRONOLOGICAL SYSTEMS OF GUJARAT
the Maitraka period to the Solanki period. In calculating intercalation of months, they followed the mean system in the early period, but adopted the true system later on. The Sūrya Siddhānta seems to have begun to get a footing in the Solanki period, but it took some centuries for replacing the Brahma Siddhānta on a large scale. The popularity of the Brahma Siddhānta in Gujarat seems quite natural in view of the fact that Gujarat was closely associated with South Rajasthan in several spheres of cultural life · The common use of the Vikrama Era, the wide prevalence of the system of Kärttikādi years and Amânta months and the popularity of the Brahma Siddhānta, thus, constitutes the outstanding characteristics descerned in the different chronological systems that prevailed in Gujarat in the different periods.
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