Book of Indian Eras, with Tables for Calculating Indian Dates c5.9

c5.9

We have another testimony to the early use of the lunar fortnights in a passage of Quintus Curtius, whose information must have been obtained from some of the writers who accompanied Alexander the Great.‖ "Their months consist of fifteen days; but they keep the full year. They reckon time by the course of the moon; not as most people do, but by half-moons.”