History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v6.c82.91

v6.c82.91

The Mahābhārata knows of the yuga of five years⁷⁰⁵ (in Sabhāparva 11. 38). The Pitāmahasiddhānta,⁷⁰⁶ which is not extant now, stated, according to the Pañcasiddhāntikā of Varāhamihira, that yuga means five years of the Sun and the Moon and that an intercalary month was added after thirty months.