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three to four hours after the end of the tithi of the date. Finally, in No. 191 of V. 1154 the Uttarayana-samkranti is wrongly quoted, because it cannot possibly take place on the third of the bright half of the month Magha, the day given by the date.--The general result is, that in six out of eight cases in which a sankranti may be supposed to have been correctly quoted, it took place during the actual tithi of the date; and taking this to be the rule, I have little doubt that the same was the case in the date No. 169, and that the reading of that date should be altered in the way already suggested by me under the date.22
Other holy or festive times : - Occasions, other than eclipses and sankrantis, on which donations were made, are mentioned in connection with the dates in the following terms :manvádau, in connection with Chaitra-sudi 15, in the date No. 172 of y. 1185 ; akshayatritiya - parvani and akshayatritiyd-yugádi-parvani, with Vaisakha-śudi 3, in No. 63 of V. 1222 and No. 173 of v. 1229; mahá-Vaisakhyári parvani, with Vaisakha-sudi 15, in No. 71 of V. 1256 ; maháchaturdasi-parvani, with 'Sravana-śudi 14, in No. 35 of v. 1218; Karttikôdyapana-parvani, with Karttika-sudi 11, in No. 180 of V. 1231; am dvūsyd-parvani in No. 109 of V. 1256; vyatípåta-parvaņi (denoting here the yôga Vyatipata) in No. 39 of V. 1263 ; abhisheka. parvani in No. 10 of V. 1263; and átmiya-mátuh súrvatsarike in No. 178 of V. 1107. Among these dates special attention may be drawn to Nos, 63, 172, and 173, which quote the manvadi, yugadi, and akshaya-tritiya festivals.
Repeated tithis:-An instance of a repeated tithi is distinctly furnished by the date No. 158 of V. 1747 in which the day is described as dvitiya-chaturthi-dira; and I would here draw particular attention to that date because my previous remarks on it are not quite correct. When they were written, I had been misled to believe that a day on which no tithi ends receives the number of the tithi which ends on the preceding day, and I accordingly stated that in the date under discussion we should by Professor Jacobi's Tables have two days numbered 3, and only one fourth day. But as in reality, and most naturally, a day on which no tithi ends receives the number of the tithi which is current during the whole of that day and ends on the following day, the result obtained from Professor Jacobi's Tables quite accords with the wording of the date No. 158, and Wednesday, 19th March, A.D. 1690, was by those Tables really a dvitiya-chaturthidina. A proper understanding of the rule regarding adhika tithis also shows the date No. 159 of v. 1404 to be quite correct by the Tables. For since in that case the 14th tithi of the bright half commenced I h. 4 m. before mean sunrise of Thursday, 18 October, and ended 0 h. 45 m. after mean sunrise of Friday, 19 October, A. D. 1347, both the Thursday and the Friday must have been numbered 14 in the calendar, and the Thursday, which more fully might be described as prathama-chaturdasi-dina, is properly denoted in the date by sudi 14.
Suggestions for Calculating Datos. The above are about all the remarks of more general interest that are suggested to me by the lists of dates, and I would therefore for the presenta conclude these notes with a few practical hints which may save trouble to others.
So far as my own experience goes, a tithi of the bright fortnight never ends on the same weekday more than once in three consecutive years, and accordingly, when, by calculating a tithi of the bright fortnight for one of the two or three) possible years, the proper weekday has been found, such a result may generally be considered as satisfactory, and no further calculation need be made for the remaining possible year or years. In the case of a date of the bright fortnight of the months Karttiką to Phâlguna (e.g., No. 3), the calculation should first be made for the expired Vikrama year, because mostly this will at once furnish the desired result. In dates of the bright fortnight of the months Chaitra to Âśvina (e. g., No. 30 or 57), the calcula
2 Attention may be drawn here to the occurrence of the term shadastika, denoting one of tha solar months, in No. 166 of V. 1396.
» Some intorasting dates collected since the publiontion of my lists will be published hereafter.
