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 c8.8

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12. The result, 12·7383 days, is just what we find entered in Table VI as the moon's anomaly at the commencement of K.Y. 3101 (B.C. 1). From this point we go on, year by year and century by century, till we reach 1600 A.D., when a correction, or *bija*, introduced by the Hindu Astronomer Ganesa Daivajna, comes into operation. The effect of this *bija* is to raise the annual increase of the moon's anom. from 7·04896 d. to 7·04898 d. or by 2 seconds of time every year, and also to diminish the length of the anomalistic month from 27·5546 to 27·55459797 or ·000002 d., *i.e.*, ⅙ of a second every month. As a result of this correction, the anomaly for the commencement of K.Y. 5011 (1910-11 A.D.) is 2·1759 days. As the first new moon in the same year occurs (*vide* Section 8 supra) on the 25·9134th day after the commencement of the year, the anomaly for the time of the first new moon is 25·9134 + 2·1759 ————— 28·0893 Deduct completed anomalistic month—27·5546 ————— ·5347 of a day.