Indian Chronography: An extension of the “Indian Calendar” with working examples

Abstract

HINDU chronology appears extremely complex at first glance, but this complexity is more apparent than real, being largely due to the fact that so many different systems of reckoning were used in different places and at different times. Each single system is comparatively simple, and—save for the. neglect of the effects due to precession—fairly accurate. The standard work on the subject is the “Indian Calendar,” by Messrs. Sewell and Dikshit (NATURE, vol. liv., No. 1393), to which the present volume forms a supplement. We have here a condensed account of those systems of chronology usually met with in inscriptions and documents, which are more fully treated in the previous work. Some space is devoted to the tropical year in view of the fact that this unit is occasionally met with, while the method of reckoning by Jovian Samvatsaras is fully described.

Indian Chronography: An extension of the Indian Calendar with working examples.

By Robert Sewell. Pp. xii + 187. (London: George Allen & Co., Ltd., 1912.) Price 31s. 6d. net.