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Early Javanese inscriptions : a new dating method /

"Early Javanese Inscriptions puts the study of Indonesian epigraphical dating on a completely new footing, both in terms of speed and reliability of the analytical procedures." "No luni-solar calendrical system can be properly accounted for unless the kind of intercalation (insertion...

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Main Author: Eade, J. C.
Other Authors: Gislén, Lars.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston : E.J. Brill, 2000.
Series:Handbuch der Orientalistik. Südostasien ; 10. Bd.
Subjects:
Calendar, Javanese.
Inscriptions > Indonesia > Java.
Inscriptions, Javanese.
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Table of Contents:
  • Sect. 1. Introductory
  • Sect. 2. The Pancanga System as an Instrument for Javanese Dating
  • 1. The tithi
  • 2. The wara
  • 3. The naksatra
  • 4. The yoga
  • 5. The karana
  • Sect. 3. The Evidence Reviewed
  • App. I. A Rule of Thumb for Intercalation
  • App. II. Intercalation from saka 732 to 1415
  • App. III. Naksatras, Yogas, and Rasi
  • App. IV. Karanas
  • App. V. The Length of the Lunar Month
  • App. VI. What Does "-rasi" Signify?
  • App. VII. Mistakes in the Pancanga Elements.

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