Indian Epigraphical Glossary c6.2727

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(CII 3), anomaly of the moon, taken to be her distance from apogee, from which point it is always reckoned by Hindu astronomers; the annual variation in the moon’s kendra is 3 signs 2 degrees and 6.2 minutes, or 7 tithis 9 ghaṭīs and 42 palas. See also nīcocca-māsa, tithi-kendra, tithi-madhyama-kendra and tithi-spaṣṭa-kendra.