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 c6.13

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If you reckon 365·258756484 days for every Hindu year, you will find that the commencement of 3101 K.Y. fell on 16th March, 1 B.C., at ·15379 of the day. The Hindu astronomers, however, have to drop 2·1706944 days out of this reckoning, because the Indian Solar Year 0 Kaliyuga really began 2·1707 days before the moment above assigned for its commencement. This dropping out or correction is called Sodhya,* and we shall meet with it again.