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grant of Srivadhůvalla-Malladêva-Nandi
varman, of Saka-Samvat 261 .............. 239ff. mughailan = umm-i-ghaildn ..................... 143 Muhammad Azim of Kabul defeats the Sikhs 23 Muhammad Shah Sar, coins of .................. 67. Muhammadans spoken of as Turushkas, and
mentioned as defeated by Sahilladôva...... 8,11 muhúrta, the thirtieth part of a mean day and
night, a period of forty-eight minutes ; names of the muhúrtas, as used in recorded dates :
Abhijit ................... .............. 20 Visva...
........... 249 Muharta-Tattva, an astrological work; its
date is about A.D. 1498-99, . .316 ; - a quotation from it in support of the heliacal. rising system of the Twelve-Year Cycle of
Jupiter ................................................ 313 Malraj of Multân .......... ............... 99 Multân, conquest of, by Rañjit Singh 18, 19;
- Ranjit Singh's reception at ............... 21 Mungala, apparently an ancient village in
Chamb& ............................................9, 12 music, a school of Hindu ........................... 242 Mu'tazz, Ibn-al, a notice of ...................... 323 Mutwålesena, a king of Ceylon, A.D. 838 to
858.............. Muzaffar Khân, Nawab of Multân .............18, 19
......... 328
*..**............ 125
Mohwar, a river near Têrahi, mentioned
under the ancient name of Madhuvēņi...... 201 months, Cappadocian, Iranian, and Zoroas
trian; remarks on their names .......... 90 to 94 months, Hindu, lunar; the lunar month
takes the name of that solar month in which occurs the true new-moon forming the commencement of the bright fort. night of the lunar month, 145; - the duration of a mean lunar month is about 29 days, 13 hours; that of a true lunar month varies between 29 days, 40 min., and 30 days, 1 hr., 15 min., 145; -the intercalation and expunction of lunar months, 146; - remarks on mean intercalations, 15+; - names of the lunar months, as used in recorded dates :
Åshadha (June-July).........216, 218, 250, 298 Asvayuja (Sept.-Oct. ......
............ 23 Åśvayuja (Sept.-Oct.) ....................... 300 Åśvina (Sept.-Oct.) .........................216, 252 Bhadrapada (Aug.-Sept.) ...10, 141, 201,
202, 225, 248, 328 Chaitra (March-April)... 247, 248, 299, 335, 337 Isha (Sept.- Oct.)............ Jyaishtha (May-June) ......
.... 249 Jyêshtha (May-June)...142, 183, 210, 219, 250 Kårttika (Oct.-Nov.) ...... 119, 217, 230,
240, 249, 251, 328, 332, 337 Mágha (Jan.- Feb.) ...... 136, 216, 218, 220,
234, 247, 251, 265, 336 Marga (Nov.-Dec.) ........................216, 328 Mårgasira (Nov.-Dec.).....................228, 249 Mårgaśirsha (Nov.-Dec.) ......... 248, 266, 328 Paushu (Dec.-Jan.) ........................ 247, 249 Phálguna (Feb. March)......211, 216, 241, 250 Sravana (July-Aug.) ...............217, 249, 328 Suchi (June-July) ............................... 264 Urja (Oct.-Nov.)...............
251 Vaisakha (April-May) ...8, 141, 248, 249, 252 months, Hindu, solar; the civil commence
ment of each solar month is the day on which the corresponding sankranti is usually celebrated; the first of the solar Vaisakha being the day of the Mesha-Sam. kranti, and so on, 146; - Prof. Jacobi's method and Tables for calculating their
initial days ............... ............... 145f., 161f. moon-god, on Indo-Scythian coins............... 91 Mörbi, a village in Kathiâwâd ; the grant of
Jainka, of the (Gupta) year 585 expired; remarks on the reading and interpretation
of the date, 211; - examination of the date 211 Mộtiråm, Diwan, his appointment ............... 18 Madki, battle of ....... Mudyanar, a village in the Kolár District;
examination of the date in the spurious
nagara, nagart, Sansksit, represented in
Prákşit by nêra, nêri ........................... 118n. Nagarahára, a country near Jalalabad.. 309,
311 and n. Någas, mentioned as conquered by Dadda III. [I.]............
..................... 195 Någaudh State, inscriptions from the noticed
332ff.
Nagod, a village in Gujarat; mentioned
under the ancient name of Niguda ......... 184 nakshatra, 'a lunar mansion; the grouping
of the nakshatras for naming the years of the Twelve-Year Cycle of Jupiter, according to the heliacal-rising system, 2, 3; - a variation by Garga and Parisara, as quoted by Utpala, from the usually accepted grouping, 2 n. ; - the longitudes of the ending points of the nakshatras, according to the equal-space system, by which each nakshatra represents the exact twentyseventh part of the ecliptic circle; according to the Garga system of unequal spaces, governed by the same primary division; and according to the Brahma-Siddhanta system of unequal spaces, governed by the moon's daily mean motion, and introducing the additional nakshatra Abhijit, 3; the indexes of the same, as arranged by Prof.
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