Book of Indian Eras, with Tables for Calculating Indian Dates c31.9

c31.9

The initial day of the year having been fixed, it is a very simple process to find any particular day of a given month, by an inspection of the Table of solar months, with the collective number of days for the whole year. The months themselves are of varying lengths with broken periods; but for the calendar they are made to consist of whole numbers. Then suppose it be required to find the day of the Christian year corresponding with the 10th of Kartika of the solar year 4958, Kâli-Yuga, a reference to the Table will show that the day required is the 197th day of the year, which is to be reckoned from the 12th of April as the first day. A reference to the Christian Table of days shows that the 12th of April is the 71st day, to which adding 196, we get the 267th day of the Christian year, or the 22nd of November 1857.