Book of Indian Eras, with Tables for Calculating Indian Dates c13.13

c13.13

These facts show most decisively that the Syro-Macedonian calendar of the Seleukidæ was luni-solar, and not solar, as is frequently stated.* Thus James Prinsep, copying an article from the Companion to the Almanac for 1830, says :—"Their year was solar, and consisted of 365 days, with the addition of a day every fourth year." But the calendar of 365¼ days is the Julian calendar, which was not adopted in Syria until some time after the Christian era, when it had become a Roman province.