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 c4.s3.20

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Tables XI-D and XI-E, which are printed on the next two pages, are the additive tables promised in N.B. to § 263, p. (95) of the Text. One of the intervals in Table XI-D, as well as the result of the application of Table XI-E, should be added to the moment of new moon in order to ascertain the ending moment of any *nakshatra* or *yoga*. Though the tables are, as a whole, additive, it should be remembered that in using Table XI-E, the correction corresponding to the decimal portion of the argument should be subtracted from the correction corresponding to the integral number of days after which the first new moon appears in each solar year. Where great accuracy is not essential, it is unnecessary to calculate the correction corresponding to the decimal portion of the argument. The argument for Table XI-E is always the day of the First New Moon in the Solar Year. When the First New Moon is less than a day old in the Solar Year, prefix 0 to the argument. Thus, for A.D. 1915 (First New Moon in Solar Year, 0·9855) the Nakshatra correction is 2·2089 - (0783 + 0004) = 2·1352; and the Yoga correction is 4·11036 - (13641 + 00076) = 4·07319.