Page:Sewell Dikshit The Indian Calendar (1896) proc.djvu/104

The year is Meshâdi and from Bengal, to which the Sûrya Siddhânta applies (see Art. 21). The Bengâli month Phâlguna corresponds to Kumbha (Table II., Part ii.). The year commenced on 11th April, 1854, A.D. (Table I.)

	d.	w.	h.	m.
(Table I., cols. 13, 14, 17a)	101	3	17	13
Difference of longitude for Calcutta (Table XI.)				+ 50
Collective duration up to the end of Makara (Table III., col. 9.)	305	422	2	2
	406	0	20	5
This result represents the moment of the astronomical beginning of Kumbha, which is after midnight on Saturday, for 20 h. 5 m. after sunrise is 2.5 a.m. on the European Sunday morning. The month, therefore, begins civilly on Monday (Art. 28, Rule 1 above). Add, therefore, 1 to (${\displaystyle d}$) and (${\displaystyle w}$)	1	1
Add 20 (given day) to (${\displaystyle d}$), and, casting out sevens from 20, add 6 to (${\displaystyle w}$)	20	6
0 = Saturday, 427 = 3rd March (Table IX.)	427	0

Answer.—Saturday, 3rd March, A.D. 1855.

Example xi. Required the week-day and A.D. date corresponding to the Tinnevelly Âṇḍu 1024, 20th day of Âvaṇi. (See example 8, p. 73.)

The year is South Indian. It is not Meshâdi, but Siṁhâdi. Its corresponding Śaka year is 1771 current; and the sign-name of the month corresponding to Âvaṇi is Siṁha (Table I., and Table II., Parts ii., and iii.) The Śaka year 1771 commenced on 11th April (102), A.D. 1848 (a leap-year), on (3) Tuesday. Work by the Ârya-Siddhânta (Art. 21).

	d.	w.	h.	m.
(Table I., cols. 13, 14, 17)	102	3	1	30
Collective duration up to the end of Karka	125	6	9	38
	227	2	11	8
The month begins civilly on the same day by one of the South Indian systems (Art. 28, Rule 2, a); therefore subtract 1 from both (${\displaystyle d}$) and (${\displaystyle w}$)	1	1
	226	1
Add 20, the serial number of the given day, to (${\displaystyle d}$) and (less sevens) to (${\displaystyle w}$)	20	6
	246	0
Deduct 1 for 29th February (N.B. ii., Art. 149 and N.B. iii., Art. 147)	1
	245