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 c34.5

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247. The present method is founded on Largeteau's principle, but differs essentially from it as well as all previous applications of it in one important respect. Instead of using Largeteau's method to discover how much space has been accomplished at a particular moment of time, the present writer has used the method of day-spaces or space days to discover the moment of time at which a particular extent of space has been accomplished. Thus, instead of determining the expired portion of a tithi, corresponding to a given moment of time (i.e., generally, to mean sunrise on a particular day,) as is done by Messrs. Jacobi and Sewell, and then calculating the unexpired portion of the tithi by means of successive approximations, the present writer investigates, directly and once for all, the ending moment of a tithi, the very thing required by Indian usage.