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The present European calendar came into vogue around 7 A.D. India, since ancient times, has been following the lunar calendar. The Western calendar has undergone many variations and adjustments from time to time e.g., at one stage the first six months had 31 days each while the last six months were 30 days each.
Uptil the Mahabharat War the world had a single, unitary administration under Vedic sovereigns, which reckoned the day from sunrise to sunrise centering on India. Consequently, other regions of the world stuck to the Indian time schedule. Thus for instance, when the sun rose in India at around 5.30 am it used to be midnight hour in Britain. Therefore the Vedic administration in Britain calculated its date from midnight to midnight.
When in the course of time the world became divided into regional states resulting in mutual strife. The British ruled India for about 200 years uptil 1947 A.D. The midnight to midnight reckoning under British rule, emanated originally from the Indian sunrise time. Modern calculations based on that midnight time often result in a error of one or two years in timing.
Before proceeding to analyze the Mahabharat chronology let us first familiarize ourselves with the Vedic lunar calendar. In its cycle of 60 years, the names of successive years are :
1. Prabhava | 2. Vibhava | 3. Sukla | 4. Pramoodotha |
5. Pajothpatthi | 6. Agnirasa | 7. Srimukha | 8. Bhava |
9. Yuva | 10. Dhata | 11. Eswara | 12. Bahudhanya |
13. Pramadi | 14. Vikrama | 15. Vishu | 16. Chitrabhanu |
17. Swabhanu | 18. Tharana | 19. Parthiva | 20. Vyaya |
21. Sarvajittu | 22. Sarvadhari | 23. Virodhi | 24. Vikriti |
22. Khara | 26. Nandana | 27. Vijaya | 28. Jaya |
29. Manmatha | 30. Durmukhi | 31. Havilambi | 32. Vilhambi |
33. Vikari | 34. Sarvari | 35. Plava | 36. Shubhakritu |
37. Sobhakruthu | 38. Krodhi | 39. Vishwavasu | 40. Paridhavi |
41. Plavanga | 42. Keelaka | 43. Sowmya | 44. Sadharana |
45. Voridhikrutu | 46. Paridhavi | 47. Pramadicha | 48. Ananda |
49. Rakshasa | 50. Nala | 51. Pingala | 52. Kalayukti |
53. Siddharthi | 54. Roudri | 55. Durmati | 56. Dundubhi |
57 Rudhirodgari | 58. Rathakshi | 59. Krodhana | 60. Akshaya |
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