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Editore: University of Chicago, Chicago - USA, 1965
Da: Khalkedon Rare Books, IOBA, Istanbul, Turchia
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Soft cover. Condizione: Very Good. 1st Edition. Original yellow wrappers. Roy. 8vo. (24 x 17 cm). In English. pp. [274]-284. This paper is a contribution to Birūnī's one of the major works in Arabic titled "Al-Qānūn al-Masūdī", a treatise calendars devoted to calendars and chronology. The chapter begins with a definition of the Saka Era. Birūnī then states two rules, the first for converting a date given in one of the three calendars common in the countries of medieval Islam into the equivalent Indian date, the second for performing the inverse operation, conversion from an Indian into a Western date. The epochs of the Arkand Zij (the Khandakhādyaka and the Kaliyuga are given in this, the hierarchies of periods used in Indian chronology are defined, and the astronomical parameters assembled by us in Section 2 below are presented." Six copies in OCLC 494511865, 469404461.