Traditional Panchangam calculations

[Sven Ekelin]

On *Sat, 20 Nov 1999 12:04:56 -0800*, Paul Kekai Manansala wrote:

     >On the Kathmandu Post website

What is the URL?

     >it had the tithi Krisna Ekadasi for November 18.
     >Was this a mistake, or do the Nepalese use "krisna"
     >to refer to the bright fortnight?

It is more than likely that it was a mistake. On the Nepalese
calender, see p. xxviii - xxx in

     Nepalese Manuscripts. Part 1. Described by Siegfried Lienhard.
     Stuttgart 1988. (VOHD, Band xxxiii,1.).