गुप्त अभिलेख संग्रह (जे. एफ. फ्लीट - गुप्त सम्राटों एवं परवर्ती नरेशों के ऐतिहासिक पाषाण व ताम्रलेख)

152 CORPUS INSCRIPTIONUM INDICARUM, VOL. III.
Now add together the respective quantities in (a) (b) and (c), bearing in mind that, in
doing so, when the vâras in (a) the abdapa exceed 7, or any multiple of 7, only the
remainder, above 7 or its multiple, is to be brought to account, because there are 7 vâras
or week-days in each week; and that, when the tithis in (b) the tithi-śuddhi and in (c) the
tithi-madhyama-kêndra exceed 30 and 28 respectively, or any multiple of them, only the
remainders above 30 and 28, or their multiple, are to be taken notice of, because there are
30 tithis in one lunar month, and, as nearly as possible, 28 tithis in one revolution of the
tithi-kêndra.
We thus obtain in (a) the abdapa, vâras 1, gh. 13, p. 28·4. The first quantity, of the
days, shews that the week-day on which occurred the Mêsha-Saṁkrânti of the given year,
Śaka-Saṁvat 406 expired, was Sunday. And the remaining quantities shew that the
Mêsha-Saṁkrânti took place at the end of gh. 13, p. 28·4, after sunrise on that Sunday.
The small decimal which we have here, as also in (b) the tithi-śuddhi, under the palas,
may be disregarded in the following steps of the process.
In (b) the tithi-śuddhi, we obtain tithis 5, gh. 6, p. 47·4. From this we learn that,
when the Mêsha-Saṁkrânti of the given year, Śaka-Saṁvat 406 expired, occurred,
5 mean tithis of the month Chaitra were completed, and also 6 ghaṭîs and 47 palas of the
6th tithi had elapsed. The number of completed tithis, here 5, is technically called the
tithi-dhruva or ‘constant of the tithi;’ because, when it has been determined for any
given year, it remains uniform or constant in working out any example in that same year.
And the remainder, here gh. 6, p. 47, is called the bhukta-tithi or ‘elapsed portion of the
(current) tithi.’
Subtracting the bhukta-tithi, gh. 6, p. 47, from 1 tithi or 60 ghaṭîs, the remainder,
gh. 53, p. 13, gives the portion of the 6th tithi that was still to run. This is technically
called the bhôgya-tithi, lit. ‘(that portion of) the tithi which is still to be enjoyed.’
In (c), the tithi-madhyama-kêndra, we obtain tithis 21, gh. 25, p. 22. This gives us
the moon's kêndra, reduced to tithis, at the time of the Mêsha-Saṁkrânti of the given
year, Śaka-Saṁvat 406 expired.
To this, the bhôgya-tithi, viz. gh. 53, p. 13, is to be added. And the result, tithis 22,
gh. 18, p. 35, is the kêndra at the end of the 6th tithi of Chaitra. This is called the tithi-
spashṭa-kêndra or ‘apparent kêndra of the tithi.’
Next, by subtracting from the bhôgya-tithi, viz. gh. 53, p. 13, as many palas, 53, as
there are ghaṭîs in it,¹ we convert it into a mean solar day, with the result of gh. 52, p. 20.
¹ i.e. by subtracting the sixtieth part. This proportion is taken for the sake of easy calculation.
Properly speaking, to convert a tithi into a solar day, the sixty-fourth part should be subtract-
ed; because one mean tithi is equal to ·984353 of a solar day, i.e., as nearly as possible, sixty-three
sixty-fourths of a solar day. The difference, however, does not introduce any material error.