History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v6.c78.1

v6.c78.1

The Bhandarkar Oriental Research Institute has great pleasure in publishing the first part of the fifth and last volume of Mahāmahopādhyāya Dr. P. V. Kane's monumental *History of Dharmaśāstra* This part comprises two sections The first section deals at length with many important vratas and utsavas such as Kṛṣṇajanmāṣṭamī, Durgotsava, Diwālī, Saṅkrānti, Mahāśivarātrī, Holikā, and also includes brief notices of about 1100 vratas, pūjās and utsavas with references, the second section deals with Kāla (Time), and its philosophic conceptions from Vedic times downwards; Indian Astronomy and Astrology and the theories of Western scholars about them; nakṣatras and astrology based on them; *muhūrtas* and their employment in religious rites; the Zodiacal signs; planets and week-days, principles laid down in Indian astrological works, calendar, eras and intercalary month; Yuga, Manvantara and Kalpa; Yoga and Karaṇa; and reform of our calendar.