Almanac Questions:

[Ravisankar S. Mayavaram]

namaste

I got some valuable information in a great detail on these questions from
Govind (he forwarded the info posted on bhakti list *). I will go through
them, and post what I understand based on those posts. I have a panchangam
as well, which I started using recently on daily basis (while saying
saMkalpam). I will compare what is written in those posts with the almanac
and post it to the list.

Calendar based on Sun is called sauramAna and not sUryamana.

With respects,

Ravi

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