Abstract
At first sight Hindu chronology seems an intricate matter to the European mind. To explain in a simple way what is necessary for understanding and dealing with the following tables the graphical method seemed to me most expedient. We shall represent TIME by a straight line, without beginning or end. Any inch of that line may stand for a day as well as for a thousand years, for a second as well as for an aeon.
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van Wijk, W.E. (1938). Explanation. In: Decimal Tables for the Reduction of Hindu Dates from the Data of the Sūrya-Siddhānta. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-6251-9_2
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