Bīrūnī, Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad, Alberuni's India (v. 2)

(London :  Kegan Paul, Trench, Trübner & Co.,  1910.)

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56                         ALBERUNTS INDIA.

cashaka. Then he multiplies the basis by 29 and gets
the product 3828. He adds thereto 20, and divides
the sum by 36. The quotient represents the 'dnardtra
days, viz. io6f.

However, as I have not been able to find the proper
explanation of this method, I simply give it as I find
it, but I must remark that the amount of unctrdtrct
days which corresponds to a single ad,himdsct month is

T r   7 8 8 7
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