གཎ་ཌའ་དས་ཀྱ་མད notes.8
The Sūtra on Timings for the Gaṇḍī notes.8
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8. It is notable that the year is divided here into four seasons of three months each, rather than the five or six seasons more commonly found in Indian treatises. For example, Kauṭilya’s Arthaśāstra 2.20.54–60 describes six seasons of two months each. See Olivelle (trans.) 2013, p. 147.