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 c17.46

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But seeing that the ☉'s distance * from node at the first new moon in the solar year A.D. 554–55 was 168·66 days, and that the year was one with an adhika month, it is plain from the head-lines of Table X that the addition to 163·66 of 354·37 gives us 518·03 days, which, deducting 346·62 leaves 171·41 days, which indicates that certainly there was a solar eclipse at the corresponding New Moon, i.e., on Chaitra New-Moon day, 8th March A.D. 555. As a matter of fact, it appears from Oppolzer's *Canon der Finsternisse*, that there was a solar eclipse on 8th March, A.D. 555.