History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v6.c82.708

v6.c82.708

¹⁰³⁷ वायुपुराण (chap 50, verse 202) enumerates these twelve months The gṛhyasūtras employ the saura month names, vide p 610 above about the months for marriage They occur in inscriptions also as the month 'Sahasya' and 'Tapasya' in the Mandasor Inscriptions of 493 and 529 of the Mālava era (Gupta Inscriptions p 79 ff)