[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [Vedic Index of Names and Subjects](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912) › v2.c4.s9.26 # Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v2.c4.s9.26 Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v2.c4.s9.26 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c4.s9.26](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v2.c4.s9.26) Zimmer¹⁶ also finds an attempt at intercalation in the famous 12 days in which the Ṛbhus are said to have slept in the house of Agohya.¹⁷ He thinks that they represent twelve days added at the winter solstice to equate the lunar year of 354 days and the solar year of 366 days; and from the reverence paid in German antiquity to the ‘12 nights,’ he infers that this mode of intercalation is Indo-Germanic.¹⁸ There can be little doubt that this view is wrong, and that the 12 days are merely the ‘reflexion of the year’ (saṃvatsarasya pratimā)¹⁹ in the sense that they represent the twelve months, and have no relation to chronology at all. - [Previous: v2.c4.s9.25](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v2.c4.s9.25) - [Next: v2.c4.s9.27](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v2.c4.s9.27) - [Up: v2.c4.s9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v2.c4.s9) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v2.c4.s9.26](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v2.c4.s9.26) · Pramāṇa