The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s13.161

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³ Here, again, the saṁvatsara is determined by the mean-sign system. By the southern luni-solar system, Vyaya coincided with *Śaka-Saṁvat* 729 current, and therefore cannot be connected with the figures 730. But, by the mean-sign system, it began on the 4th June, A. D. 806, in *Ś.-S.* 729 current, and ended on the 31st May, A. D. 807, in *Ś.-S.* 730 current.—The nearest lunar eclipses were on the 26th February and 21st August. And there was no lunar eclipse, on the given *tithi*, in either the preceding or the following year.—In connection with the absence of the eclipse (for which see Von Oppolzer's *Canon der Finsternisse*, p. 356), it may be noted that Prof. Jacobi has indicated (*Ind. Ant.* Vol. XVII. p. 155, note 12, and *Epigraphia Indica*, Vol. I. p. 423) that, eclipses being particularly auspicious occasions of donation, they would probably be calculated beforehand, in order to have all the arrangements ready, instead of being taken from actual observation; that, within and near the limits of a possible eclipse, the Hindû tables and system might at any time predict an eclipse when none would occur, or *vice versâ*; that the Hindûs, placing implicit trust in their *Śastras*, would not think it necessary to test a calculation by actual observation, especially as small eclipses, particularly of the sun, are apt to escape notice; and that the writer of an inscription would, therefore, mention an eclipse irrespective of whether it was actually seen or not, if he found it predicted.