Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c8.12
Indian Science and Technology in the Eighteenth Century: Some Contemporary European Accounts c8.12
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c8.12
Mr Fraser in his History of the Mogul Emperors, speaking of time says, ‘the Lunar year they reckon 354 days, 22 gurris, 1 pull; the Solar year they reckon 365 days, 15 gurris, 30 pulls, 22½ peels; 60 peels making 1 pull, 60 pulls 1 gurri, and 60 gurris 1 day. This is according to the Bramins or Indian priests, and what the Moguls and other Mahommedans in India chiefly go by.’