Indian Chronology (Solar, Lunar and Planetary): A Practical Guide to the Interpretation and Verification of Tithis, Nakshatras, Horoscopes and other Indian Time-records, B.C. 1 to A.D. 2000 c10.26

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27 Passing Âsvina, in the year 1 B.C., we find that each of the subsequent mean new moons is within ·6 day of a sankrânti, and we must therefore calculate the anomalies in order to be quite sure whether each new moon is on this or that side of a sankrânti. Having made these calculations, we find that between two sankrântis at 246·3192 d. and 275·6369 d. there is no new moon, although there is a new moon just under six ghatikas (·095 d.) after the second sankrânti. Had this new moon preceded the sankrânti ever so little, instead of following it, or had our method been inaccurate at this stage to the extent of 2 hours, the consequences we are about to state would not have followed. As it is, there is no new moon between the two sankrântis at 246·3192 d. and 275·6369 d., and therefore the lunar month which has no hinge to turn on is shut; this fact is expressed by saying that Pausha lunar month is kshaya or suppressed.