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 c34.6

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248. By setting this object steadily in view, the author has been enabled to reduce to two or three very simple and easy steps, Messrs. Sewell and Dikshit's method, which covers a page and a half (pp. 81, 82) of their "*Indian Calendar*"; likewise he has considerably abridged Professor Jacobi's process, which consists, in the first place, of an approximation, on Largeteau's method, and thirteen or fourteen subsequent steps (a) to (m), as expounded in Volumes I and II of "*Epigraphia Indica*". As regards Mr. Dikshit's own very accurate but very tedious method, covering several pages of the introduction to Dr. Fleet's "*Gupta Inscriptions*", the present writer has been successful in arriving at absolutely the same result as Mr. Dikshit in two lines of working. (See Sections 223, 259.)