Book of Indian Eras, with Tables for Calculating Indian Dates c8.7

c8.7

According to the rule for naming the several years of the 12-year Cycle of Jupiter, the year is called after the Nakshatra in which the planet rises heliacally. But in practice the names of the Jovian years are made to coincide with those of the luni-solar months. So that should the planet rise in Bharani the year is not called Bhârani, but Aswini, which is the name-giving Nakshatra of the group to which Bharani belongs.