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

176 CORPUS INSCRIPTIONUM INDICARUM, VOL. III.
of the two; since the duration of the saṁvatsara, roughly three hundred and sixty-one
days, approaches so near to that of the solar year; and the omission of a saṁvatsara
occurs only once in about eighty-five years. And this point of convenience seems to be the
reason for which the system was invented by the astronomers. But, as both the systems
are given in astronomical works, both of them must certainly have been actually used.
And such will always be the case, as long as those works exist.