9. Cyclic and other years.—The headings at the top of each page comprise (1) the symbols for Solar and Lunar eclipse and the abbreviations for AnuivaSya and Pa/tram/pi (2) the numbers of years in the different eras (3) the names of Samvatsaras or Cyclic years in Northern and Southern India and (4) the commencement of the Indian year according to Siirya and Ayya Siddhantas according to the Koll [...] For the equivalents in ghatikas and Palas or hours and mantes of three decimal places of a day see table on inside of cover.) For the places actually given in that appendix the local time for any particular day is found by simply adding (algebraically) the quantity noted in the last column under the place and against the clay in question (in' Appendix 11) to the ending moment of the tithi or [...] B.--In order to find the tropical longitude for any day of the Solar year for the present time from A. D. 1840 to A. D. 1920—we should add 20 days to the number of elapsed days in the Solar year and find under the given latitude in Table XIII the correction for tropical longitude appropriate to the resulting number of days.) The interval from actual Madras sunrise up to moment of birth was theref [...] Planetary Motions.—The example of the caculation of an actual horoscope given below will show the use to be made of the table of geocentric longitudes of the planets for every 10 days in the year given in Indian Chronology for the years A. D. 1840 to A. D. 1999 and in the present work for the years A. D. 1910 to A. D. 1990. [...] Students of practical astronomy are exhorted to use them for the purpose of identifying the places of the planets in the nocturnal heavens and for studying those forward and retrograde motions of the planets which in every age and country have afforded such rich material for the discoveries of astronomy and the inventions of astrology.
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