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KOTTAYAM PLATE OF VIRA-RAGHAVA CHAKRAVARTI
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Lot us now work out the fall of Easter Sunday accordingly on the proposed scheme.
NORMAL YEARS. (1) In a Sunday Year,
15th April falls on Saturday: Easter Sunday on 16th April. (2) In a Monday Year, 15th April falls on Sunday:
15th (3) In a Tuesday Year, 15th April falls on Monday:
14th (4) In a Wednesday Year, 15th April falls on Tuesday: .
13th (5) In a Thursday Year, 15th April falls on Wednesday: ,,
12th , (6) In a Friday Year, 15th April falls on Thursday:
11th or 18th April (7) In a Saturday Year,
15th April falls on Friday : 1 . 1 7th April, On the above reckoning Easter would fall between the 11th and 18th April, and all other festivals and customary days, dependant on Easter accordingly. The table attached gives the various principal dates. No other festivals or customs would be affected.
In Leap Years, however, owing to the extra day falling on the 29th February, the 15th April falls on the same day of the week as New Year's Day. E.g., in a Sunday year 15th April would fall on a Sunday, and so on, but that weuld not affect the cycle of 11th to 18th April for the fall of Easter Sunday in Leap Years.
FALL OF FESTIVALS DEPENDENT ON THE FALL OF A FIXED EASTER. Ash Wednesday .. .. ..28 Feb. 1 2 3 4 5 6 March Good Friday .. .. .. 9
11 12 13 14 15 16 April Easter Sunday .. .. .. 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 April Easter Monday ..
..13 14 15 16 17 18 19 April Whitsunday .. .. ..26 27 28 29 30 31 May 1 June Whitmonday
.. ..27 28 29 30 31 May 1 2 June It will be clear that this Scheme is not nearly so easy to work on as Schemes I and II, the Lunar Solar and the Solar Schemes already examined, but it would create very much less change in age-old habit. Also it would do no more than fix Easter; it would not fix a set day for the commencement of the year, as do the two previously discussed schemes.
(To be continued.)
KOTTAYAM PLATE OF VIRA-RAGHAVA CHAKRAVARTI.
By K. N. DANIEL.
(Continued from page 196.) The Dates that suit the Istronomical Positions in the Plate. Now let us take the copper plate under discussion. It was executed on a Saturday, Rôhiņi 4th asterism, 21 st Minam, when Jupiter was in Makaram. I have examined this date from the first contury to the fifteenth century. All dates, which suit the Astronomical requirements jusi mentioned, have already been pointed out by Kookil Kelu Nair, Purnell, and Kielhoin. They are the following: -
(1) A.D. 230, Maroh 6. It was Kali 3330, Saturday, 21st Minam. The greater part of the day and the whole night was Rôhiņi. Jupiter just passed the Makaram rdhi. Moan Jupiter passed is th of the next rasi and the actual Jupiter 3 degrees and 53 minutes, i.e.,
