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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY,
A JOURNAL OF ORIENTAL RESEARCH.
VOLUME XXVI. 1897.
ON SOME NEW DATES OF THE VIKRAMA ERA FROM THE PALM-LEAF MSS. IN DR. P. PETERSON'S FIFTH REPORT.
BY DR. ROBERT SCHRAM, VIENNA.
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To the kindness of the dates, extracted him
from Dr. Peterson's Fifth Report. All these dates are coupled with the week-days, so that their calculation is easy and in most cases permits us to decide if the date is current or expired, and if the reckoning is amanta or purnimanta. In arranging the dates I follow the arrangement adopted by Prof. Kielhorn in his paper on the Vikrama Era, Indian Antiquary, Vol. XIX. p. 20 ff., which is as follows:
I.
Regular Dates:
(A) Dates in bright fortnights :---
(1) Dates from Karttika to Phalguna :
(a) Dates in current years.
(6) Dates in expired years.
(2) Dates from Chaitra to Âśvina :
(a) Dates in northern current years.
(6) Dates in northern expired or southern current years.
(c) Dates in southern expired years.
(B) Dates in dark fortnights:
(1) Dates from Kârttika to Phâlguna :(a) Dates in current years:
(a) Purnimânta dates. (3) Amânta dates
(b) Dates in expired years:
(a) Pürgimânta dates.
(8) Amânta dates.
(c) Dates either pârnimânta current or amânta expired.
(2) Dates from Chaitra to Aévina :
(a) Dates in northern current years :
(a) Pârnimânta dates.
(P) Amânta dates.
(b) Dates in northern expired or southern current years:
(a) Purnimânta dates.
(8) Amânta dates.
