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 c2.3

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The work is intended, however, for the use of a much wider public than the scientific few who are interested in Indian chronological research. The same principles, whereby we are enabled to re-call into the light of history the inscriptions that are being unearthed at the rate of a thousand every year by the various Indian Epigraphical departments, continue to guide the religious observances and civil usages of millions of people in India at the present day, and no one interested in the social and religious life of this vast continent can fail to take at least some slight account of a system, so ancient and so thoroughly ingrained in the habits of the people. The Indian calendar is generally considered either too abstruse for popular, or too inaccurate for scientific, exposition, but neither of these objections is more than a fallacy. A good deal has been done in the past to put Indian chronology on its proper footing, namely, as the faithful handmaid of Indian history, and there is no reason why the torch so worthily carried in their day by the late Professor Kielhorn, the present Dr. Fleet and other workers in the field, should not be kept bright and burning in the hands of their successors, provided they are equipped with the necessary knowledge of data and principles.