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VIII
TABLE OF CONTENTS.
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The sixty-year cycle of Jupiter—General remarks 46
Calculation by the Sūrya Siddhānta without the bīja 49
Calculation by the Sūrya Siddhānta with the bīja 52
Calculation by the First Ārya Siddhānta or Āryabhaṭīya 53
Calculation by the Original Sūrya Siddhānta 55
Calculation by the Brāhma Siddhānta and Siddhānta Śirōmaṇi 58
Calculation by the Second Ārya Siddhānta 62
Calculation with reference to mean Mēsha saṁkrānti 64
Difference in reckoning in Northern and Southern India since about A.D. 908 64
The twelve-year cycle of Jupiter 65
Jupiter's mean longitude 66
Jupiter's true longitude 69
Note on preparation of Table XXXVIII. B., being a continuation of Table I. of the Indian Calendar to A.D. 1950 72
The lagna 74
Hints 75
Examples
Solar reckoning:
1, 2. Apparent Mēsha saṁkrānti. Time of—by different authorities 81
3, 4. Apparent Mēsha saṁkrānti. Time of—in very early years 81
5, 6. Mean Mēsha saṁkrānti. Time of—by different authorities 82
7, 8. Conversion of results by the Ārya into results by the Sūrya Siddhānta, and vice versa 83
9, 10. Tropical, or sāyana, Mēsha saṁkrāntis 84
11, 12. Other "true" saṁkrāntis 86
13, 14. Conversion (as above) 86
15, 16. Other mean saṁkrāntis 87
17, 18. Conversion (as above) 87
18a, 18b. Other tropical saṁkrāntis 88
Note to Examples 9, 10, 18a, 18b 90
19. The European civil day corresponding to a given Hindū solar day 90
Luni-solar reckoning:
20—22a. The true tithi current at any moment, and the times of its beginning and ending in mean time 91
23. How to find if a true tithi was added or suppressed 95
24. The mean tithi current at any moment, and the times of its beginning and ending 97
26. To prove a date where a given tithi is coupled with a solar date 99
"True" intercalations and suppressions of lunar months by the Ārya Siddhānta—
27. A common year 100
28. Year with intercalation 101
29. Year with suppression 103
The same by the Sūrya Siddhānta—
30. A common year 105
31. Year with intercalation 105
32. Year with suppression 106