The Orion, or Researches into the Antiquity of the Vedas c6.16

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‡ Ait. Br. ii. 17; Taitt, San. ii, 5, 8. 3; Rig, i. 164. 48. Prof. Whitney (Sur. Sid, 13,*n*) observes, "The civil (*sâvana*) day is the natural day......A month of 30 and a year of 360 days are supposed to have formed the basis of the earliest Hindu Chronology, an intercala ry month being added once in five years."