Again Dinakshya-sam.kraanti

Wed Apr 17 08:44:40 UTC 2002

At 23:28:25  Sun,14 APr 2002 -0700, Luis Gonzalez-Reimann wrote:

>The day of the winter solstice is the shortest day (and the longest >night)
>of the year.

Thus I think the meaning of the appelation dinakhaya-sam.kraanti to the
Makara-sam.kraanti is intelligible. Now only remains to be seen whether the
word under scrutiny is attested in the Dharmashaastra literature.

Meantime, Dr Harry Spier endeavoured to make me understand the term basing
himself on jyautisha. Many thanks.

Mahes Raj Pant

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