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APRIL, 1887.]
METHOD OF CALCULATING HINDU DATES.
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Saka-Samvat 406 = A.D. 484-85. Ashaşha (June-July); the bright fortnight; the 12th tithi; Suraguruvara (Thursday).
(6)
Tithi-madhyama-kenilra.
tithi yh.
(a) Abdapa.
Tithi-suddhi. vâra gh. p.
tithi gh. p. Saka-Samvat 0 (p. 10) ... 1 10 10
12 45 14 Add variation for 400 Saka years (p. 11) ...... 6 30 9-3
15 55 49-2 Add variation for 6 Saka years (p. 10)............... 0 33 9.1
..... 6 23 20-2 Add correction for a date
prior to Saka-Samvat 1622 ........
....... 0 224 Week-day and time of
the Misha-Saskránti of Saka-Sarivat 406 ... 1 13 28+ tithi.dhruva and
bhukta-tithi ...... 5 6 474
9 24 45
58:39
21 -5 2
From one tithi ...... 1 00 Deduct bhukta-tithi 0 6 47 Add, from the bháyya-tithi ......... 0 53 13 1 bigya-tithi ... 53 13 Deduct as many
tithi-pushtu-ként palas as there
dra ............... 22 18 35 are ghatis in the
thigya-tithi ...... 0 053 Mein solar day...... 52 29
19 28
52 20 5 13
ghalis and palas only,
froin above ............... 0 Adl, from (b), the mean
solar day ............... 0 tithi-bhoga ................... 1 Add: espired tithin :--
Chaitra ......... 15 Vaisakha ...... 30 Jyeshtha ...... 30 Ashadha ......
1
9
minus, from ),
tithi-dhruva...... 5 expired tithis from
end of Chaitra
śukla 5 ........... 96 sular equivalent of 98 tithis (p. 14)............ 94 17 36
9523 Add parákhya, obtained
from (c) tithi-spashtakendra of Asha ha
śukla 12 .................. 0 24 19 Days elapsed up to end of apparent Åshacha
sukla 12 .................. 95 47 43 Add week-day of Mesha.
Sankranti of Saka
Samvat 406 ............... 1 Reduce to weeks......... 71) 96 (13
91 Remainder, the 5th day,
is Thursday...............5
| Add lithi-kenda
of (a) 9:3 title
(p. 11) ......... 12 tithi-sisht
Windre at end of Åshil saklat 1.2.........
19 55
RESULT; THURSDAY.
