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[gruenendahl]

> Friends:
>
> Could someone more adept at calendars and conversion programs be able
> to help me with a date? Samvat 1560 [= 1503 CE], month Caitra,
> fullmoon day [naksatra given but the name is torn in the ms], and it
> is a zanivaara [Saturday]. What day and month of the year would this
> be? Thanks.
>
> Patrick

Just a guess:
Subtracting 56 (instead of 57) for the expired karttikadi
(instead of caitradi) year of the Vikrama era, I get 1504 CE, in
which Caitra-purnima was on Saturday, 4 March 1504, the naksatra
being Hasta (cf. Swamikannu Pillai, Indian Ephemeris, vol. 5, p. 210).


Best regards

Reinhold Gruenendahl


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