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Samavāya seventy-one
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on his southward motion enters the 112th circle, on the full moon day of the fourth month Kārtika of the fourth lunar year; the season of Hemant begins on the first of the dark half of Mrgsira. The sun traverses the remaining circles in seventy-one days of the Hemant season. In other words, the sun turns northward from southward on the thirteenth of the bright half of the month of Māgha.
According to Jyotişkarandaka, the order of the tithis, related with the northward and southward of pentad year is as follows: Northward
Southward Māgha
Śrāvana 7th of dark
1st of dark 4th of bright
13th of dark 1s of dark
10th of bright 13th of dark
7th of dark 10th of bright
4th of bright B. The second Seer Ajit lived eighteen-lac pūrva as a prince and fifty-three lac pūrva and pūrvānga as a king. It is notable that the duration of one pūrvānga has not been taken into account, in this aphorism...
1. Abhayadeva, p. 80. 2. Ibid, p. 80.
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