By devavarṣa, they are probably referring to the Divine Year. The standard description in the Sūrya Siddhānta and the Purāṇas  is that an year for human beings is one ahorātra (day+night) for the gods.  Three hundred ahoratras of gods make one <i>devavatsara, </i><i>divyavatsara </i>or <i>devavarṣa</i>.<div>
<br></div><div>On the other hand, the Jupiter Year, according to the data given in the Sūrya Siddhānta, is 361days, 0h 38mins.</div><div><br></div><div>Regards,</div><div>Suresh.<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Mar 6, 2013 at 5:40 PM, Patrick Olivelle <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:jpo@uts.cc.utexas.edu" target="_blank">jpo@uts.cc.utexas.edu</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">The Smṛticandrikā at one place explains the need to put down the &quot;varṣa&quot; in a document as &quot;devavarṣamityādi&quot;. I do not know what &quot;devavarṣa&quot; could be. It is not one of the 60 names of the Jupiter Cycle. Any help will be deeply appreciated. Thanks.<br>

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Patrick<br>
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