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Ön Karanas in Jaina Calendar
night Strivilocana; thirteenth day Garādi karaṇa, night Vaņijya karana; fourteenth day Vișți karana, night sakuni karaņa, Amāvasyā day Catuspada karana, night Nāga karaņa.
On first day of lunar bright half, it is Kinstughna karaņa."
The above data are shown in Table No. 1
TABLE NO. 1 TABLE OF KARANAS
Tithi
Lunar bright half Day karaña Night karana
Lunar dark half Day karana Night karaņa
Kin+
12
14
6 Śak
15(30)
Cat.
Nag.
+ Names of Karanas : (1) Bava, (2) Bālava, (3) Kaulava, (4) Strīvilocana
(Taitila), (5) Garādi, (6) Vanijya, (7) Vişti. Then sak = Sakuni, Cat. = Catuşpada, Nāg. = Nāga, Kin. - Kinstughna.
It is worthy of note that the karana Strilocana is popularly known as Taitila these days. It appears that etymological study of nomenelature of karanas poses an important problem. It is evident by inspection from Table No. i that the immovable karanas are associated with particular half-tithis and they occur only once a month each, e.g., Sakunt occurs on fourteenth night of the lunar dark half. The movable karaņas occur in rotation from the first night of lunar bright half upto fourteenth day of lunar dark half and each of them may occur at different days and different nights. Every tithi has been divided into two karaņas i.e; day karana and night karana.
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