Book of Indian Eras, with Tables for Calculating Indian Dates c13.6

c13.6

Now the Macedonian Calendar, like that of the Athenians, was a luni-solar cycle of 19 solar years, or 235 lunar months; and as more than a century had elapsed from the time of Meton when Seleukus established his era, there can be no reasonable doubt that the Metonic cycle was adopted in Syria. This is proved by the following facts:†