History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v6.c82.842
History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v6.c82.842
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One very noticeable feature is that the 7th mobile Karaṇa called Viṣṭi appears to have inspired great terror in the minds of medieval writers on Dharmaśāstra It will be noticed that dividing the lunar month into 60 halves of tithis, and beginning Bava on the second half of the pratipad of an amānta month, the Karaṇa Viṣṭi will occur eight times in one month as the following diagram of the sixty halves will show: