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 c2.4

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Lastly, there is hardly any person, holding a position of consequence, public or private, in India, who is not occasionally confronted with the citation of an Indian date. To Magistrates, Judges, Lawyers, Missionaries, Business Men of every description, as well as to Historians, it is of interest to know the meaning of chronological terms in daily use among the people, although all may not, equally with the epigraphist and the archæologist, feel inclined to enter upon a regular study of Indian chronology. To those with scanty leisure, Tables XII and XVIII, forming a luni-solar and planetary Ephemeris for the 80 years A.D. 1840 to A.D. 1920, together with the simple instructions as to their use, contained in the Second and Fourth Parts of the book headed "Use of the Tables" and "Planetary Chronology" as well as in the Eye-Table, will be found no less handy than serviceable. The publications ordinarily known by the name of Jantri are unscientific, and few of them are up to date, whereas the ephemeris portion of the present work will enable any one to understand and decide, with reference to first principles, any question of current Indian chronology for seventy years past and some ten years to come. A table (XV) has also been inserted to link together the Indian and Muhammadan calendars.