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 c34.2

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244. The method of calculating and verifying Indian dates, presented in this work, is intended to be of service to the general reader as well as to the scientific expert, the epigraphist, the archæologist, and the historian. The method is perfectly simple and at the same time absolutely correct according to the Siddhântas, so that it has become possible for the first time to dispense with all manner of approximations and rough and ready methods which, however valuable in the hands of an expert, are apt to mislead and confuse, more often than they assist, the general reader. The principal device by which this combination of extreme simplicity with accuracy and absolute fidelity to the original authorities, has been accomplished, is the reduction of all quantities required for calculation to whole days and fractions of a day.