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 c31.3

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226. At the end of Table VII are given constants for any period of 100, any period of 200, any period of 300 years, etc., up to a period of 3000 years. These figures lead us to a knowledge of the principal lunar cycles in the Indian Calendar, that is, periods of years after which new moons happen on the same day and more or less at the same hour of the Indian solar year. Thus we find from Table VII that, according to the Sûrya Siddhânta, a new moon after 19 complete S. Yrs. recurs on the same day of the S.Y. but 5 hrs. 24' earlier.