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 c37.7

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N.B.—By taking this slight liberty with the mean sidereal periods of planets, the exact agreement of the mean place of any planet with its place in modern astronomy is secured, and the serious divergences between the two systems, commented on in Whitney's notes on the Surya Siddhanta have been effectually avoided. As a result, the place, whether mean or actual, assigned to any planet in Tables XVII and XVIII, may not tally exactly with Indian calculations, but the difference will generally be found to be very slight, while there is an obvious advantage in having for every possible epoch a mean place for each planet, identical with that assigned to it by modern astronomy.