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168 THE CHRONOLOGICAL SYSTEMS OF GUJARAT mean sunrise on the given week-day. The ending moment of the preceding tithi is generally taken from the Tables that are prepared on the basis of the local sunrise (calculated from the mean sunrise), the tithi given in the date No. 104 is found to have commenced shortly before (rather than after) sunrise on the given week-day. Thus the date becomes regular according to local sunrise. In the four remaining cases, the dates become regular if the ending moments of the preceding tithis (i.e. commencing moments of the given tithis) are calculated according to the Brahma Siddhānta and examined in relation to the local suprise. The commencement of the given tithi accordingly falls before sunrise on the given week-daye.
The remaining dates, which number twenty-one are found to be tenable only by connecting the given tithi with the week-day on which it commencedo.
How the results of the examination of the definite dates10 may be analysed with a view to note the prevalence of the different system in the Sārasvata Man. dala during the Solanki period.
The ordinary or normal mode of citing an Indian 8. In the Tables the given tithi is mentioned as suppressed, as it
commenced after mean sunrise on the given week-day day and ended before mean Sunrise on the next day.
The same is the case with the alternative date given in No. 109.
The date No. 115, too, becomes regular according to the Brahma Siddhānta. 9. The first alternative date in No. 109, too, falls under this
category. 10. The doubtful dates which require some correction or other are
obviously not taken into consideration here,
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