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 c29.48

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209. The length of the modern anomalistic year is 365·2596 days while that of the Hindu solar year is 365·2587 days. There is no practical error in adopting, as the Indian Siddhântis have done, an identical period for the anomalistic and solar (sidereal) years. The modern anomalistic lunar month is, like the Hindu anomalistic month, 27·5546 days. In converting degrees of anomaly into days we, therefore, put—