&m 



■;0 n the "Indian C-y-cx-e 



for which time the computation is maKi?; and likewi-fe, that the next -year 

 Rudhirodgari will commence, in the enfu.ing folar month of Mdgha. 



■ ~KNadiya almanack for the prefent year ftat;s, that, on the lit of lafl 

 ]Vcjific/^-thQTQ were expired of the Vrihafpati cycle 55 years, 2 months, 23 



'days, and 10 daridas •; and, that the current year Djndubbi \vi\\ continue 

 . until the 7th day of the folar month of Mdgb : the difference of 1 -day, and 



56 dandas, 'between this and the foregoing refalt, is too great to be accoun- 

 ted for by the difference of longitude between Nadiya and JJjjein, for the 



meridian of which latter place computations by the Surya Siddhdnta a t e 



made; but it is of no coafequsneeto theintenied purpofe ofthis paper. 



There is another rule for computing the Vrihafpati year given in -an ai%o=> 

 .logical book named jfyautijiatva. At The :Jdca years note down in two 

 64 places. Multiply (one „of the -numbers) by ■■?&, Add (to the produft) 

 ■■*" 420,1. Divide (the Turn) by -1 875. Th^ quotient add to the fecond 

 - 8£ number noted dq.wn^ and divide (the Turn') by 60. The remainder -or 

 th fraction ..will (how the year Jail expired, cou ting from Pr a bhava. .as -the 

 " firft of the cycle. The fraftion, if any, left by the divfor 18/g .may 

 <" be reduced to months, .days, &c. .expired of the. current year," 



The fdea years expired on the ifl of laft Vaijticb, correfpomfing with 

 the expired years 48^2. of the cali yug, were 171 j: then, by the rule, 

 17.13 x 2a + 429 i .== 2.2 tt!t» .and, 1713 .+ 2,1 = 28 ~» which ihows 

 ^.';j;xB7| ' 60 



the -laft expired, year oi'Vrihafpati to have been the 55th of the cycle, named 

 Durmatii and the fraction f|| T , when reduced, that 4 months, 19 days B 

 and 35 dandas were expired of the current year Dandubbi when laft Faijdcba 

 beg;an 



