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THE INDIAN ANTIQUARY.
DECEMBER, 1889.
THE SIXTY-YEAR CYCLE OF JUPITER. i..., the 18th October, A.D. 1295, 21 h. 4.2 m. In order still further to facilitate the finding of
after mean sunrise. the exact commencement (and end) of a Jupi. Having found the commencement of a year, we ter's year which may be mentioned in a Hindu find the end of the same year by adding to the date, I have constructed the accompanying sum found, for the year without Bija 361.0267 Tables from the data in my paper on the Sixty- days, and for the year with Bija 361 0347 days, Year Cycle, ante, pp. 193-209. Tables 1 and 2 | as shown in my former article, thus:serve for the Sarya-Siddhanta rule; Tables 3 Commencement of Plava, with und 4 for tbe Jyotistattva rule.
out Bija, .......... 2194 312.6052 In Table 1 the last two columns give the day
+ 361-0267 of the Julian period for the commencement for end) of a complete cycle of sixty years,
sizm. . . . . 2194 673-6319
ie the 8th September, A.D. 1269, 15 h. 9.9 m. counted from Vijaya as the first year of the cycle,
after mean sunrise, - end of Plava without Bija; without and with Bija; and the first column
and gives the European date for the day put down in
Commencement of Plava, with the same line under the heading without Bija,' while the second and third columns give the
Bija, ...... 2194 347-8779
361.0347 expired (northern) Vikrama and Saka years to which that European date belongs. Table 2, on
sum ... 2194 708-9126 the other hand, gives the number of days for the i.e., the 13th October, A.D. 1296, 21 h. 54'1 m. commencement of every year within the sixty. after mean sunrise, - end of Plava, with Bija. year cycle, also without and with Bija. And all To show how to find by the Tables the Jupithat is necessary to find the European date for ter's year current at any given moment, and, the commencement of any year, is, to add up one
at the same time, to test once more the accuracy set of figures from Table 1 and another set of
of the Tables, we will ask :-What year, without tigures from Table 2, and to convert the sum into Bija, was current, and what portion of that year the European date, and into hours and minutes had elapsed, at the time of the Mêsha-Sarikranti after mean sunrise (for Ujjain), as may be seen
of the expired Saka year 1713 ? from the following example:
By the Tables given in my paper on the SixtyAccording to Archæol. Survey of India, Vol. Year Cycle, the day of the Julian period for the XI. Plate xxxvii. 3, a stone inscription at Jaunpur commencement of the solar year Saka 1713 ex. is dated
pired,= Kaliyuga 4892 expired, isJyêGjyai) shthê másê sitê pakshe dvadasy&(áyk).
2375 309.4392 (Mésha-Samkranti). u=Budha-vAsare . . . Plave-vatsarê Il San
Deduct next vat 1353 Il
lower complete corresponding to Wednesday, 16th May, A.D. cycle, without 1296. The cycle of sixty years, of which the year Bija, in Table Plava, which is here coupled with the Vikrama 1, ....... 2364 717-2175 year 1353, forms part, must be the one which by remainder .. 10 592-2217; Table 1 commenced in Vikrama 1344 expired; deduct next and we accordingly have, for the commencement lower figure, of this year Plava, without Bija,
without Bija, by Table 1, commencement of
in Table 2,.. 10 469-7749 (commencement cycle, without Bija, for
of Dundubhi). V. 1344, ........... 2191 424 3914
remainder
122-4468. + by Table 2, commencement of Plava, without Bija, ....... 2 8882138
Accordingly, by the Tables, the year without
Bija, current at the time of the Mesha-Samkranti 2194 312-6052
of Saka 1713 expired, was Dundubhi, and of this i.e., the 13th September, A.D. 1205, 14 h 31.5 m.
year there had elapsed, at the same moment, after mean sunrise ; and similarly, for the com
122-4468 days = 122 days, 10 h. 43-4 m. of solar mencement of Plava, with Bija,
time. Now, by a MS. calendar for Saka 1713 ex. by Table 1,...... 2191 459-6007
|pired, which is in the Royal Library at Berlin, the + by Table 2, ..... 2 888-2772
Jupiter's year current at the commencement of sum
2194 347-8779 the year was Dundubhi, as found above; and 1 The construction of these Tables han to some extent Tables for the Sorya-Siddhanta rule, without Blje, conbeen suggested to me by the general practioe of Dr. structed on similar principles, though without reference Sehram's Hilfetafeln für Chronologie, and by some MS. to the Julian period, by Mr. Sh. B. Dikshit.
