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 c34.4

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246. The reader will notice that in the first three parts of the present work as well as in the connected tables (except the Subsidiary Tables VI-a, VII-a, and VII-b, which are intended mainly for purposes of comparison between the present tables and those of previous writers on the same subject,) measures of time alone are used, and that measures of space, i.e. (degrees of celestial longitude, degrees of mean anomaly of the sun and moon, etc.) have been altogether excluded. This is the principle known as Largeteau's method, which was first applied to Indian astronomical computation by Professor Jacobi in 1888. Messrs. Sewell and Dikshit have applied the same principle in their "*Indian Calendar*" (1896).