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 c26.5

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153. *Palpable evidence of lunar periods.*—We cannot visibly perceive in the heavens the fact that the sun has completed any definite stage in his annual course: but new moon, when the moon's longitude is the same as the sun's, is a patent fact: so are full moon and each quarter of the lunar month. There cannot be a difference of a whole day between the moment of new moon in one part of the country, and the same moment in another part, just as we saw there might be in the commencement of a solar month. If an inscription states that a certain tithi fell on a Monday, and by calculating backwards we trace the tithi to a Saturday we may be quite certain that there is some error in the inscription.