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 c8.9

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13. As new moon is the moment when the moon has gained exactly 360° over the sun, we have, in determining this moment as well as the moon's anomaly at this moment, to take account of the sun's pace as well as the moon's. The sun's pace depends on his position in the anomalistic year, and that we know (Sec. 4) is the Hindu solar year. We also know that at the time of occurrence of the first new moon in K.Y. 5011 the sun had advanced 25·9134 days in the anomalistic year. We simply look for the corresponding equation in the table of sun's anomaly (Table IX-c) and we find it to be midway between +·145 and +·144. We put down +·1445 as the equation we require and add thereto ·5347, the moon's anomaly already found. Net moon's anomaly, ·6792.