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The Journal of the Ganganatha Jha Research Institute November 1950

1950

in the time of Yudhisthira were based on the system of the Vedd )ga Jyotip and the people of the time used to follow the same irrespective of the actual tithis or naksatras based on the correct positions of the sun or the moon. [...] Daftari gives the criterion of the year of Bharata war as follows : The year of the War is minus 1 695.3 i. e. 1197 B. C. At this time the sun turned to the North when it entered the constellation Dhanisthd Now it is an undiputed fact that the sun was in the kestha on the a thaväsyd of the Kartika according to the calender of those days. [...] 207 of his book he says :11 " That the constellation of the moon and the day of the turning of the sun given in the Mahcibhärata were arrived at by the wrong process in vogue in those days." In para 113 of his book he writes : " Now in the days of war (minus 1695-198 B. C.) the equinox was 90° to the East of Dhanishtha and the sun turned to the North when it entered the constallation Dhanishtha [...] The table in the appendix A gives the longitudes for the beginnings and the ends of all naksatras (of the system of 28 as well as of that of the 27 naksatras). [...] Tnus when the first point of Dhanistha was fixed the beginnings and the ends of the other nakstras and also the corresponding times of the entry of the moon and the sun therein got automatically fixed.
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Pages
119
Published in
India
SARF Document ID
sarf.120072
Segment Pages Author Actions
Frontmatter
i-iii R.D. Ranade, A. Siddiqi, Umesh Mishar view
The Date of the Bharata War
1-76 Tarakeswar Bhattacharyya view
Epigraphic Notes
77-82 V.V. Mirashi view
An Illustrated Hindi Manuscript
83-ii Sudha Bose view
Mayamukhyakarika of Laksmipati
87-90 K. Sarma view
Tantrika Vidyapati
91-100 Ramanath Jha view
Reviews of Books Year’s Work in Modern Indian Language Studies
101-106 Amar Mukerji view
Reviews of Books
107-113 unknown view
Obituary
114-114 unknown view

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