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diplava. If so i.e., if they omit one day in each month of the year], they should undergo the Voof initiation for their sacrifice on the eleventh day of the bright half of the month, and spend thirteen days in Yow (before they perform their sacrifice on the fourteenth, c.e., the Ekáshtaká day of the dark half of the month). Or they have to spend seventeen days in vow.85
Calendar-Form I. [Abbreviations : J = jyotis; G = 90; A = dyus.]
savana Year of 360 Days.
Ist Month.
.
J.
G
Ab iplava I
11
..... ...
000
IV V
- .
- - ....
19 25
20 26
21 27
22 28
2nd Month.
Abhij lava I
-...,
1
2
3
4
III
|
24
IV v
... ...
..... ... ...
19 25
26
27
30
l'he twelfth month, when recast in the form of Gavam-Ayana, consists of three Abhiplavas of six days each and a period of Dvadasaha or twelve days. In order to make this month also consist of 29 days, they make the last day of the second Abhiplava the first day of the third Abhiplava. See Calendar, Form VIII.
85 As each month of the year is made to consist of 29 days (total 348), the deficiency in the year amounts to twelve or seventeen days acoording as we take the S&yana year of 360 days or solar year of 365 days for comparison. It is clear, therefore, that the twelve or seventeen days regarded M Dikahd-days are no other than interonlary days required to make up the year in observance. Comparo Aitariya-Brahmana iv, 4, 34; an Atharvada, iv, 11, 11; iv 15, 13; and iv, 16, 6, quoted abovo.
