[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Archaeology, epigraphy and coins](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy) › [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](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.pillai-1911) › c19.5 # 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 c19.5 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 c19.5 - **Language:** English ### [c19.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.pillai-1911.c19.5) 109. In the \*Pûrnimânta\* system, each month beginning with a full moon is named after the next \*amânta\* month, but takes the dark fortnight preceding each new moon. It is to this system that we owe the name \*paksha\*, lit. a wing, the dark and bright fortnights being the wings on either side of a new moon. - [Previous: c19.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.pillai-1911.c19.4) - [Next: c19.6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.pillai-1911.c19.6) - [Up: c19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.pillai-1911.c19) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.pillai-1911.c19.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.pillai-1911.c19.5) · Pramāṇa