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TABLE OF CONTENTS
| Page | |
| List of Errata in the "Indian Calendar" | xi. |
| Additional Notes | xii. |
| Introductory | 1 |
| Dates of early inscriptions | 2 |
| Explanations and definitions | 5 |
| Solar Reckoning— | |
| Saṁkrāntis | 9 |
| Calculation by mean motion | 11 |
| Tropical saṁkrāntis | 11 |
| Rules for finding moments of | 12 |
| The śōdhya, and Dr. Schram's calculations | 14 |
| Professor Jacobi's "Indian Antiquary" (Vol. XVII.) Tables 1 to 4 (pp. 161, 162) | 18 |
| Note on the Kollam era | 18 |
| Days of a civil month—The four rules | 18 |
| Conversion of results by the Ārya into results by the Sūrya Siddhānta, and vice versa | 19 |
| Correction I. (year-lengths) | 19 |
| Correction II. (month-lengths) | 21 |
| Correction III. (śōdhya-lengths) | 22 |
| Mēsha saṁkrānti according to the Original Sūrya Siddhānta | 23 |
| Mēsha saṁkrānti according to the Brāhma Siddhānta | 25 |
| Mēsha saṁkrānti according to the Siddhānta Śirōmaṇi | 26 |
| Luni-Solar Reckoning— | |
| Preliminary | 28 |
| The beginning of the luni-solar year | 29 |
| The ordinary civil beginning | 30 |
| Amānta and pūrṇimānta systems | 31 |
| Computation by true lunar months and tithis | 31 |
| Rule for finding a, b, c in very early years | 32 |
| Professor Jacobi's "Indian Antiquary" (Vol. XVII.) Tables 5 and 6 | 34 |
| Adhika and kshaya tithis | 35 |
| Computation by mean lunar months and tithis | 36 |
| Intercalations and suppressions of lunar months. True and mean systems | 37 |
| Conversion of results by the Ārya into results by the Sūrya Siddhānta, and vice versa | 39 |
| (a) The "true" or "apparent" system | 39 |
| (b) The mean system | 40 |
| Nakshatras, Yōgas, and Karaṇas— | |
| Nakshatras | 40 |
| Yōgas | 45 |
| Karaṇas | 45 |