100 Years India Calendar to his Highness Maharana Shri Daulatsinhji Thakore Saheb of Limbdi

The names of the months differ and are given in the folloing table It will be noticei that the Malayalam names are corrutions of the Sanskrit names of the signs while the Bengali and Tamil are corruptions of the Sanskrit names of the lunor months Months. [...] The period from conjunction upto the time the moon is 12° in advance of the sun is called the first Tithi that from the time it is 12° to the time it is 24° in advance the second Tithi and so on for each interval of 12° upto the end of the 15th Tithi when the moon is 180° in advance of the sun and full. [...] The rest of the columns give the Gujarati and Hindi names of the months ; the Bengali and Tamil have been given above (Para 14); the Marathi are the same as the Sanskrit. [...] The Sukla Pakha is identical in both schemes and bears the same name but in the Piirnimanta scheme the Krishna Paksha bears the same name as the succeeding Sukla where as in the Amanta it bears the same name as the preceding Sukla. [...] The dark fortnight preceding the Adhika month is called the dark fornight of the Nija month of the same name and the bright fortnight following the Adhika is called the bright one of the Nija.