पूर्णिमान्त (pUrNimAnta)
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Indian Epigraphical Glossary
Englishpūrṇimānta (CII 3, etc.), the technical name for the scheme
of the lunar months in Northern India, according to which
the months end with the full-moon day, and the dark fortnights
precede the bright
Fleet states that in astronomical works, it
is always the amānta arrangement that is actually taken for
calculations though, even in Southern India, the pūrṇimānta
arrangement was used with the Śaka years, for the civil reckoning,
up to between 804 and 866 A. D.
on the other hand, according
to him, even in Northern India, it was not used with the Newar
era in Nepal, though it was adopted there when the Newar
era was followed by the Vikrama era in its northern variety.
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