Useful Tables, Forming an Appendix to the Journal of the Asiatic Society: Part the First, Coins, Weights, and Measures of British India |
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... commencement of this paper , that the rupee was the universal unit of currency throughout India , a reservation should have been made for those parts of the peninsula where the pagoda and fanam still circulate . There are in fact two ...
... commencement of this paper , that the rupee was the universal unit of currency throughout India , a reservation should have been made for those parts of the peninsula where the pagoda and fanam still circulate . There are in fact two ...
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... commencement of a new one , 365 days have been taken as the length of a year , leaving the odd hours and minutes to accumulate until they amount to a whole day , when they are added to the year , making what is called a leap year , or ...
... commencement of a new one , 365 days have been taken as the length of a year , leaving the odd hours and minutes to accumulate until they amount to a whole day , when they are added to the year , making what is called a leap year , or ...
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... commencement , instead of the building of Rome . If the given Roman year be less than 754 , deduct it from 754 , the remainder will be the year B. C. or before Christ ; if the given Roman year be not less than 754 , deduct 753 from it ...
... commencement , instead of the building of Rome . If the given Roman year be less than 754 , deduct it from 754 , the remainder will be the year B. C. or before Christ ; if the given Roman year be not less than 754 , deduct 753 from it ...
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... commence the 87th Olympiad from that day , and to adopt a new system of intercalation . He supposed 235 moons to be exactly equal to 19 solar years , and that in every period of 19 years , the new and full moons would recur regularly at ...
... commence the 87th Olympiad from that day , and to adopt a new system of intercalation . He supposed 235 moons to be exactly equal to 19 solar years , and that in every period of 19 years , the new and full moons would recur regularly at ...
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... commencement . There is unfortunately a little ambiguity on this head , some persons reckoning the year immediately before the birth of Christ , as 1 B. C. , and others ioting it with 0 , and the second year before Christ with 1 ...
... commencement . There is unfortunately a little ambiguity on this head , some persons reckoning the year immediately before the birth of Christ , as 1 B. C. , and others ioting it with 0 , and the second year before Christ with 1 ...
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Agra Akber April Arcot Assay avoirdupois Bahoo bazar Beega Benares Bengal Bombay British brother bullion Burmese Calcutta cent Ceylon Chaitra China Chinese chitaks Christian Chron coinage coins commencement Company Company's cycle Delhi deposed deva ditto Dutch dwts dynasty Emperor English epoch factory February Furukhabad rupee gold mohur Government Governor grains Gujerat Hejira Hindu India Indore inscription intercalary Jaya July June Kali Kali yuga Khan king Kota lunar luni-solar Madras Mahmud Malwa March mashas maund mints Mogul mohur month moon Muhammed Muhammedan muns Nagpoor native pagoda Patna Persia princes Prome pysa Rája reckoning reign rupee Saka Samvat seers Sept Shâh Shah Aulum Sholan sicca rupee Sidereal Zodiac silver Sinh Sinha solar standard Surat Tibet Tibetan tolas troy ud-din Vadiyar weight YUDHISTHIRA བ བ བ
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Page 8 - JEWISH ERA. The Jews usually employed the Era of the Seleucides, until the fifteenth century, when a new mode of computing was adopted by them. Some insist strongly on the antiquity of their present era; but it is .generally believed not to be more ancient than the century above named. They date from the creation, which they consider to have been 3760 years and 3 months before the commencement of our era.
Page 163 - The United Company of Merchants trading to the East Indies.
Page 10 - PERIOD is a term of years produced by the multiplication of the lunar cycle 19, solar cycle 28, and Roman indiction 15. It consists of 7980 years, and began 4713 years before our era. It has been employed in computing time, to avoid the puzzling ambiguity attendant on reckoning any period antecedent to our era, an advantage which it has in common with the mundane eras used at different times. By subtracting 4713 from the Julian Period, our year is found. If before Christ, subtract the Julian Period...
Page 6 - Christians have adopted a slight alteration, which will be shortly explained, "the simplicity of this form has brought it into very general use, and it is customary for astronomers and chronologists, in treating of ancient times, to date back in the same order from its eommenceinent.
Page 7 - ... equal to 5503. This computation continued to the year 284 AD which was called 5786. In the next year, (285 AD,) which should have been 5787, ten years were discarded, and the date became 5777. This is still used by the Abyssinians.
Page 16 - ... 12 y, hog. By substituting these words for the letters in the cycle, under the head of China, the Japanese names are found. Thus, the first year of a cycle is called kino-je ne, the 35th, tsutsno-je in, and so on.
Page 159 - And knowing that a distinction of titles is in many respects necessary, we do order, that when the apprentices have served their times, they be...
Page 14 - As all those nations follow the same system, we shall detail it here more particularly. They have two series of words, one of ten, and the other of twelve words ; a combination of the first words in both orders is the name of the first year ; the next in each...
Page 10 - THE JULIAN PERIOD is a term of years produced by the multiplication of the lunar cycle 19, solar cycle 28, and Roman indiction 15. It consists of 7980 years, and began 4713 years before our era. It has been employed in computing time, to avoid the puzzling ambiguity attendant on reckoning any period antecedent to our era, an advantage which it lias in common witli the mundane eras used at different times.
Page 15 - THE JAPANESE have a cycle of 60 years, like that of the Chinese, formed by a combination of words of two series. The series of ten is formed of the names of the elements, of which the Japanese reckon five, doubled by the addition of the masculine and feminine endings, je and to.