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 c26.16

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160. If you are at Madras (lat. 13°) you will find the correction according to Table XIII to be + 2200 seconds of time, *i.e.*, + 92 palas or + 1 ghaṭika 32 palas. Adding this to mean Laṅkā time, you get (49 ghat. 57 palas + 1 ghat. 32 palas =) 51 ghat. 29 palas. The time according to the "College" Pañchāngam (Mr. Raghavachari's) is 52 ghaṭikas 33 palas, showing a difference of 1 ghaṭika 4 palas. The increased difference, as compared with Mr. Srauti's Pañchāngam, is mainly due to two facts, (1) The correction for Madras local time is less than that for Tanjore local time by 11 palas, (2) Madras standard time, which is shown in the College Pañchāngam, is nine minutes or 22½ palas in advance of Madras local time. There is still, however, an unexplained difference of a few palas between our tithi and that of the College Pañchāngam.