________________
APRIL, 1887.]
METHOD OF CALCULATING HINDU DATES.
121
Baka-Samvat 406 = A.D. 484-85. Åshadha (June-July); the bright fortnight; the 12th tithi; Suraguruvära (Thursday).
Date of the Mesha-Sankranti in March of A.D. O (p. 30).... Add variation for A.D. 400 (p. 30)..................... »
84 (p. 27)..... Date of the Mesha-Sankranti in March of A.D. 484 ....... Add days elapsed from the Mésha-Sankranti up to the given tithi, from col.
(a) of the previous process
days. gh. 13 59 3 30 0 44. 18 13
p. 10
9 7 26
....
95
113
Deduct number of days in completed months from the 1st March :
March... April ............ May ...............
Remainder is the current day of the next month, and the current day of the given tithi ........................
............................ RESULT; 21st JUNE, A.D. 484.
21
If, by the calculations detailed above, we, Table IX. on page 27, and in Table XI. on find that a certain tithi ended nearly at the page 30. end of a Hindu day,- for instance, 57 ghatis The English date answering to the given after sunrise on a Sunday ; i.e. 3 ghafis be- Hindu date in our present example, has obfore sunrise on Monday, -there may be the viously to be worked out according to the possibility that it really ended shortly after Julian Calendar, or Old Style; being long sunrise on the following day, Monday. And, anterior to A.D. 1752, when the Gregorian on the other hand, if our results show that a Calendar, or New Style, was introduced. certain tithi ended shortly after the commence- From the heading of Table XI. page 30, we ment of a Hindu day,--for instance, 3 ghatis find that, in A.D. 0, the Hindu Mesha-Sashafter sunrise on a Sunday,--there may be the kranti occurred on the 13th March, and gh. 59, possibility that it really ended shortly before p. 10, after sunrise (civil time). Enter these the termination of the preceding day, Saturday. quantities. And below them, enter the bheda
In dealing with a particular record that, on or variation for the component parts of the a certain week-day, there was a certain tithi, given year A.D., in this instance A.D. 484we can only be sure of absolute accuracy in (85), which is always obtained by adding A.D. our results, if we can ascertain, so as to apply, 78-(79) to the given Saka year; vis. for 400, the actual authority and method used by the days 3, gh. 30, p. 9, from Table XI.; and for author of the calendar which the drafter of 84, days 0, gh. 44, p. 7, from Table IX. p. 27. that record consulted in preparing his state- | Add these quantities together. The result, ment.
for A.D. 484, is days 18, gh. 13, p. 26. And The method exhibited above, however, may this shews that, in A.D. 484, the Hindu be safely relied on for all practical purposes. Mésha-Sankranti occurred on the 18th March,
and 13 ghafls and 26 palas" after sunrise. To find the English Date for a given Tithi.
Add 95, which we have already ascertained, The materials for this process are to be in the previons process, under (a) the abdapa, found in Prof. K. S. Chhatre's book, in to be the number of days that had elapsed from
0 The ghatle and palas onght to agree with the ghaffs 94 palas; which shows that here is small mistako and palas of the abdapa of Saka-Samyat 406 in col. (a) somewhere in the Tables. of the previous process. Here there is a difference of
