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 c18.2

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97. A Jupiter's cycle of 60 Jovian years is often met with in Indian chronology as a mode of reckong time. Each of the years in the cycle receives a name corresponding to the name of one of the years in Table I, but while the so-called Jupiter's cycle in Table I, as used to this day in Southern India, is merely a cycle of 60 Indian solar years, the Jupiter's cycle, properly so called, which has been in use in Northern India and which is given in Table XIV, is a cycle of real Jovian years, calculated by means of the multiplication tables in Table V and the following table for centuries.