Indian calendar-making

[Nicholas Bedworth]

Well, as a start, look at the Hinduism Today website. They have a very
detailed panchang that is downloadable as a pdf document, and they seem to
be highly involved in understanding all the calendar systems.

Nicholas Bedworth

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-----Original Message-----
From: Mani Varadarajan <mani at SHASTA.STANFORD.EDU>
To: INDOLOGY at LISTSERV.LIV.AC.UK <INDOLOGY at LISTSERV.LIV.AC.UK>
Date: Monday, January 25, 1999 9:02 AM
Subject: Indian calendar-making


>Can someone recommend an exhaustive work on Indian
>calendar-making? I am particularly interested in
>the interaction between lunar, solar, and sidereal
>zodiac-based (nakshatra) calendars, and the relative
>importance given to each in the various parts of India.
>
>In particular, I would like information on which
>parts of India use which calendar for marking
>daily events, and how their use of this calendar
>was reconciled with the Vedic/brahmanic ritual
>practices.
>
>Thanks,
>Mani