[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Archaeology, epigraphy and coins](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy) › [Book of Indian Eras, with Tables for Calculating Indian Dates](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.cunningham-1883) › c32.25 # Book of Indian Eras, with Tables for Calculating Indian Dates c32.25 Book of Indian Eras, with Tables for Calculating Indian Dates c32.25 - **Language:** English ### [c32.25](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.cunningham-1883.c32.25) In the North the luni-solar year begins with the new moon, or 1st day of \*Chaitra-Sudi\*, and as this is the latter half of the month, this Hindu year has the strange anomaly of beginning in the middle of a month. The first half of Chaitra, or the period of the waning moon, called \*Badi\*, or \*Krishna Paksha\*, belongs to the past year. This mode of placing the \*Badi\*, or waning half of the moon, in the beginning of the month is known as the \*Krishnadi\* reckoning; while the opposite practice of putting the \*Sudi\*, or \*Sukla Paksha\*, half of the moon, as the beginning of the month, is known as the \*Sukladi\* reckoning. The names \*Badi\* and \*Sudi\* are contractions of \*bahula-paksha-dina\*, the "day of the dark half," and \*sukla-paksha-dina\*, the "day of the bright half," the first and last syllables only being retained. - [Previous: c32.24](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.cunningham-1883.c32.24) - [Next: c32.26](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.cunningham-1883.c32.26) - [Up: c32](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.cunningham-1883.c32) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.cunningham-1883.c32.25](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.cunningham-1883.c32.25) · Pramāṇa