Book of Indian Eras, with Tables for Calculating Indian Dates c2.1

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MOST of the Tables in this Book were prepared for my own use so far back as 1859. I had long felt the want of some handy and ready means of calculating Indian dates, as the process described in Warren's Kâla Sankâlita and Prinsep's Useful Tables is both cumbrous and troublesome. It struck me that, by substituting decimal parts of days for the Hindu *gharis*, *palas*, and *vipalas*, and by lessening the number of items to be taken out from the tables, the process would be made much more easy. The road in both is the same, but I believe that I have made it both shorter and smoother. The best test, however, of the advantage of my process will be to compare it with one of Warren's own examples for finding the initial day of both the Solar and Luni-Solar Calendars for the year of Kâli-Yuga 4923 complete = A.D. 1822.