Re: Indian calender -- dhanurmAsam - mArgaSIrsham

D. Sreenivasa Rao (dsr@VNET.IBM.COM)
Fri, 05 Jan 96 16:13:30 -0500

juvvadi@allegra.att.com (Ramana Juvvadi) writes:

>
> > I am curious to know why you called chAndramAnaM as "luni-solar"
> > and not just lunar.
>
> I wanted to write a detailed article on this some time. I snever got around to
> it. Remember that ancient calenders were set around geocentric model and not
> the heliocentric.
>

Thanks a zillion, Ramana, for the detailed explanation. I hope other
TELUSAers benefitted from it/enjoyed it as well.

BTW, I got a private mail from Syamala Rao garu (my queries referred
to his post initially) that he would send me a reply to this and
other questions when he finds time. I would request both of you to
consider posting this on SCIT. Please feel free to quote my earlier
article if you need to, and/or add an explanatory preface as to the
origin of this discussion.

Thanks,
--sreenivas-- dsr@vnet.ibm.com