Report of the Calendar Reform Committee (the Lahiri ayanāṃśa)

Calendar Reform Committee, CSIR (Government of India) · 1955 · English · reference

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The Report of the Calendar Reform Committee (CSIR, Government of India, 1955) — the basis of the Indian National Calendar and the Lahiri (Chitrapaksha) ayanāṃśa, the sidereal zero-point convention that fixes the offset (~24.18° today) between the tropical and sidereal zodiacs. The complete 1955 report is hosted here.

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The reference ayanāṃśa the Ages / Ayanamsa tabs report. The paper dates the precessional ages by tropical sign occupation (ayanāṃśa-independent) but cites the Lahiri value for the sidereal frame.

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