Book of Indian Eras, with Tables for Calculating Indian Dates c13.37

c13.37

Now, the arrangement which I propose, as shown in Table VII, is quite free from this defect, as it has not even a single instance of three full months coming together, and only one of three hollow or short months,—namely, in the last year of one cycle and first two years of the succeeding one. According to Clinton’s scheme, if a new moon had fallen in the first day of the first of the six consecutive full months, a new moon would have occurred three whole days before the beginning of the seventh month. By my arrangement, the new moon would only differ one day and-a-half from the νουμηνια.