History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v6.c82.852
History of Dharmaśāstra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v6.c82.852
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¹¹²⁷ Vide note 574 above, where the encyclopoedist scholar Hemādri is quoted as saying that the real Makarsaṅkrānti takes place 12 days before the sankrānti in the almanacs ·and that the holy time of Makarsankrānti is really twelve days earlier than the one on which people celebrate it and religious gifts should really be made at that time.