190 The Adjustment of tie Hindu Calendar. [No. 4, 



Araar Singha states that the equinox and the Yishuva are syno- 

 nyms. So does the lexicographer Hemachandra. 



The above authors in naming the twelve months of the year, begin 

 from Agrahayana (near the winter solstice). 



Laughakshi on the authority of Somakara Kalpa Sutra begins the 

 year four days before the full moon of Magha. 



In the 9atapatha and Sankhayana Brahmanas we see the year 

 begin on the full moon of Phalgiin. 



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 The astronomy of the Rig Veda begins the year on the light fort- 

 night of Magha, and ends on the dark half of the month of Pausha. 



Authorities were quoted from the Goladhyaya of Bhashkaracharya, 

 the Surya Siddhanta, the Soma Siddhanta, the (Jakaiya Sanhita, the 

 Laghuvacishta Siddhanta, A'ryabhatta, Varaha Mihira and Brahma 



