of the Hindoos, and its Divisions. 391 
The names of the months are the same as those of the lunar 
months in the Benares patra, Visakha being the first, or that 
which corresponds with the sign Mesha. 
The lunar months begin, not at the full, as in the Benares 
patra, but at the new moon, and are called by the name of 
that solar month which ends during the course of them ; for 
example, the lunar month, during which the solar month Vi- 
sakha ends, is called Chandra (or lunar) Visakha, so that each 
month begins a fortnight later than by the Benares patra. 
The teethees do not recommence at the full moon, but are 
continued to the end of the month, or to the 30th. In other 
respects they are counted as in the Benares patra ; that is, the 
same notation is used whenever a day occurs in which no tee- 
thee ends, or when two teethees end on the same day. 
Unluckily no intercalary month occurred in the year for 
which this almanac was computed, so that it gives us no in- 
formation about the method of intercalation ; but from ana- 
logy we may conclude, that those lunar months in which the 
sun enters no sign are intercalary, and are called by the name 
of either the preceding or following month, with the addition 
of some word to denote that they are intercalary.* ' 
As the Nadeea almanac begins with the day after the com- 
mencement of the solar year, and gives the day of the solar 
month, which the Benares patra does not, it affords reason to 
think that the custom of that part of India in which it is used, 
is to date by the solar month, and begin the year on the next 
* The Chinese, who, like the Hindoos, consider that lunar month as intercalary in 
which the sun enters no sign, call it by the same name as the preceding month ; and 
it is likely that the Bengalese do so too. 
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