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THE EPOCH OF THE NEWAR ERA.
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(3.) For calculating dates of the Newår era were A. D. 879-80, the corresponding date by means of Dr. Schram's most handy Tables, wonld be Tuesday, April 16, 1387). in order first to obtain the current (northern)| 2. 10., p. 30:Vikrama year, we must add to the expired Dvadas-Ottara-pancha-batam prayâtê vihayears of the Newår era 937, when a date falls yasê (P) i within any of the five months from Kârttika Pausha-suklé navamyan=cha sampúrga (!) to Phålguna, and 938, when a date falls within Gurn-vasarê 11 any of the seven months from Chaitra to Data :-The year 512 expired, the month Asvina.
Pausha, the bright half, the ninth lunar day, To prove these statements, I shall place Guru-vasara, or Thursday. before the reader twenty-five Nêwar dates, | The corresponding (northern) Vikrama year together with the corresponding European is 512 + 937=1449 corrent; and the corresdates. Six of them are taken from the late ponding European date is Thursday, January Pandit Bhagvanlal Indraji's Inscriptions from 4, 1392. On that day, at sunrise, the 9th tithi Nêpål, ante, Vol. IX. p. 163ff., two from of the bright half was current, and it ended Mr. Bendall's Journey in Nepal and Northern 15h 22m after mean sunrise. [If the epoch India, and the remaining seventeen from the were A.D. 879-80, the corresponding date same scholar's Catalogue of Buddhist Sanskrit would be Monday, December 23, 1392.] Manuscripts, I shall begin with four dates 3. ante, Vol. IX. p. 183:(1-4), in which the years mentioned are dis- Samvan=Népalak-Akhyê tribhuvana-dahané tinctly described as expired years. After these Kâma-banê prayâté Maghe sukla cha Kame I shall give nineteen dates (5-23), in which the tithi...vidite priti-yôgê cba punye figures for the years likewise denote expired Våre Push-Abhidhånê makara-ravi-gate years, although this is not actually stated in l yugma-råsau sasanke the dates themselves. And I shall conclude It should be noted that the same year, 533, with two dates (24 and 25), in which the which here is called an expired year, imfigures for the years must be taken to denote, mediately afterwards, p. 184, where the exceptionally, current years.
date is repeated in the more business-like A.-Dates in which the years mentioned manner are described as expired years.
Samvat 533 MÅgha-sukla-trayodasi punar1. Bendall's Catalogue, p. 187:
VA8D-nakshatre priti-yôgê Aditya-våre Shat-ttaré (sic) pañcha-satê gatê sbdê Nêpâ- is called simply " the year 533." like mâsi cha Chaitra-samjõe
Data :-The year 533 expired, the month Krishna-pakshe Madan-âbhidhâyâm tithau Magha, the bright half, the thirteenth lanar Sasankatmaja-va sarê cha II
day, Aditya-våra or Sunday, the nakshatra Data :-The year 506 expired, the month Punarvasu, and the yoga Priti. Chaitra, the dark half, the tithi Madana, i.e. The corresponding (northern) Vikrama year the thirteenth lunar day, Sasankatmaja-vasara, is 533 + 937 = 1470 current; and the correor Wednesday.
sponding European date is Sunday, January 15, The corresponding northern Vikrama year 1413. On that day, at sunrise, the 13th tithi is 506 + 938 = 1444 current; and the corres- of the bright half was current, and it ended lh ponding European date is Wednesday, March 25m after mean sunrise. Moreover, at sunrise, 28, 1386 On that day, at sunrise, the 13th the moon was in the nakshatra Punarvasu, and tithi of the dark half was current, and it ended the current yoga was Priti. [If the epoch 20h 41m after mean sunrise. [If the epoch were A.D. 879-80, the corresponding date
Hilfstafeln für Chronologie, pp. 52 and 58. Dr. Schram professes to give, for the lani-solar calendar, approximate dates only, and the results obtained from his Tables bave, therefore, in the following been verified or corrected by Professor Jacobi's Tables for calculating the tithis. But, as a matter of fact, Dr. Schram's Tables, in the majority of cases, do yield absolutely true results, and they are far more convenient and useful than any other similar Tables, and I feel sure that they will be generally adopted
when they become more widely known. It is for this reason that, in the following, I have first converted the Newår dates into dates of the northern Vikrama year, instead of converting them, ag migbt otherwise appear more natural, into dates of the southern Vikrama year.
In the following I shall give the dates exactly as given in the works from which I take them, and I shall not attempt any corrections except where it may be absolutely necessary.
