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 c2.7

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It was originally intended to limit this compilation to solar and lunar chronology, but the frequent occurrence, in chronological records, in Indian literature as well as in daily Indian life, of allusions to the mean or actual places of planets, induced the writer to add a considerable number of tables on this interesting, though somewhat difficult, subject. The tables of anomalies and equations, used for planets, are based mainly on those of *Vavilala Kuchinna*, as reproduced in Warren's *Kala Sankalita*. The computation of the geocentric longitudes of planets for the years A.D. 1840 to A.D. 1920, contained in Table XVIII, entailed an enormous number of detailed calculations, but the results will, it is hoped, be found sufficiently accurate for practical purposes. By "practical purposes" the author means solely the purposes of Indian chronology, and he wishes it to be distinctly understood that he does not believe in astrology any more than in the need for, or efficacy of, the fasts, festivals and donations mentioned in Chapter XVI, "Notes on tithis in relation to festivals", which find a place in this book, merely and solely because of the frequent references in inscriptions to Hindu fasts and feasts.