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I.10          I. INTRODUCTION OF THE WORK          11
written not long ago’. But the time of a work is irrelevant to a manual of the sort the author is
writing and he is not interested in giving it. As a result of this interpretation, they have taken that
the Pauliśa rule is the same as the Romaka rule, with the result that they have not been able to see
that the following verses 11-13 give the rule of the Pauliśa, though they are quite capable of under-
standing and interpreting them. NP translate, ‘It is not very different in the Pauliśa’, without
explaining nāticire.
[पौलिशसिद्धान्तानुसारी अहर्गण:]
‘दि’घ्नाः सा‘ष्टनवरसा’ दिवसा ( ‘एकर्तु’)सप्तनव’भक्ताः |
पौलिशमतेऽधिमासाः ‘त्रिकृत’दिनान्यवमसंक्षेपः || ११ ||
Days from Epoch according to Pauliśa
11. (The formula for Days from Epoch according to the Pauliśa, is as follows:)
As in Romaka (I.8-10), deduct 427 from the Śaka year (elapsed). Multiply by
12 and add the months gone from Caitra. Multiply by 30. The ‘Solar days’
(S-days) to the end of the current solar month are got.
Multiply the S-days by 10, add 698, and divide by 9761. The quotient are
the intercalary months. (Again, as in Romaka), multiply the months got by 30
and add to the S-days, and add also the tithis from śukla-pratipad, inclusive of
the current tithi. The sum is the tithis gone from Epoch. Multiply this by 11,
add 444 (tri-kṛta) and divide by 703. The quotient are the elided days. Deduct this
from the tithis gone. The remainder are the Days from Epoch.
Here the word divasāḥ is interpreted as ravi-divasāḥ, i.e. ‘solar days’, because it comes in the place
of ‘solar months’ in the formula. The number of ‘solar days’ is equal the number of degrees
traversed by the Sun, the time taken for moving one degree being taken as one ‘solar day’ by Indian
astronomers. It is not what is meant in modern astronomy, the time interval taken by the Sun for
the successive crossing of the meridian.
To avoid error of syntax, ‘sāṣṭānavarasa’ is emended into ‘sāṣṭanavarasā’. Following the sense, in
the place of kurtu and rutu, the reading ekartu is substituted. NP editorially add before divasāḥ the
word saura, which is not necessary, as it can be inferred. NP’s translation gives the number 9761
with an emended reading kṛtusaptanava. Again, the ms. reading tri-kṛta has been changed to tri-ṣaṭ,
with the translation, ‘there is an omitted tithi every 63 days’, missing to see that tri-kṛta (444) is the
Pauliśa kṣepa in place of the Romaka kṣepa 514 of the previous verse, to be used in the Pauliśa
calculation.
11a. A1.2.D. दिग्नाः; C. दिघ्ना          A1.2. कर्तु; B1.2. रुतु; C. क्रतु; D. [कृतु]
A1.2.B1.2. साष्टा            c. C. त्रिक्रतु; D. त्रि [षड्]
A1.2.C. नवरस; D. नवरसाः [सौर] दि०    d. B2. ०नान्यिवम०
b. A1.2. B1.2. om. ए            A1.2. संशेषा