Book of Indian Eras, with Tables for Calculating Indian Dates c32.12

c32.12

The new moon, therefore, precedes the beginning of the solar year by 16·99, or 17 days. Then as the 1st of the Solar Vaisâkh fell on the 11th of April 1857 in North India, the new moon will have fallen on the 24th March, and the beginning of the luni-solar year, or the 1st Chaitra-Sudi, on the following day or 25th March. In Southern India it would have been the same according to my reckoning from Aryabhatta’s length of the solar year; and this also is the day given by Warren. But according to Cowasjee Patell, it was the 26th March.