RE: 360/365

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| om gurave namah |Dear Mark

I think I answered this earlier. We use one year = one sidereal solar return = approx 365 days + fraction

Savana days have nothing to do with vimsottari dasa and are used for calculating punishment, repentance and rituals associated with pacification of grahas etc that are indicating tough karma results...like the 40 days fast or the 21 days fast etc.Best wishes and warm regards,Sanjay RathPersonal: WebPages ¡ü Rath¡Çs Rhapsody SJC WebPages: Sri Jagannath Center ¡ü SJCERC ¡ü JIVAPublications: The Jyotish Digest ¡ü Sagittarius Publications----

 

 

 

sohamsa [sohamsa ] On Behalf Of krogermark1969Saturday, June 03, 2006 5:01 PMsohamsa Subject: 360/365

Hi,Do we prefer 360 savana year or 365 solar year in our calculations or both?I¡­ve understood that savana year is used in [vimsottari] dasas.First vedic chart with dasas I got [somewhere 1989] was done with 365 years and although I¡­ve tried to clear dasas, that difference haunts in my subconsciousness.Indistinct birthtime 10:24-10:28 disturbs still more [10:25 in official birth certificate; 20.02.1969, 27e41/62n54].Mark

 

 

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|| Jaya Jagannath ||Dear Mark,As the name suggests Savana means Civilian calendar which is used more for convinience rather than anything else. This is same as civil hour. Just think of a delema when each hour in a day changes based on the length of a day. How to create a watch to handle that and how to communicate time. However when we consider jyotish, civil time is not much use and we need to astronomical basis for a day, that is Sunrise to next Sunrise.

Similarly, the astronomical basis for a year 1 complete revolution of Earth around the Sun. If you consider the civil year, then you find that it is out of sync with the astronomical year and it is moving backward each year by approx. 5.3422 days. How to accomodate this duration! When we talk of a Solar year, I don't think there can be any alternative definition of a year other than One complete revolution of earth around Sun. Since solar year also has impact on the seasons, we need to take the precession of equinoxes also into consideration. So the most correct definition of year should be the period after which Sun comes to the same declination as it was a year before, which is the definition of Sidereal Year. Since the equinox preceedes in the zodiac, the sidereal is little higher than tropical year which marks the year with return of earth at the same point with respect to the fixed zodiac.

Hence the correct measure of a dasa is a Sidereal Year.Best WishesSarajitOn 6/3/06, krogermark1969 <

mark.kroger wrote:Hi,Do we prefer 360 savana year or 365 solar year in our calculations or

both?I´ve understood that savana year is used in [vimsottari] dasas.First vedic chart with dasas I got [somewhere 1989] was done with 365years and although I´ve tried to clear dasas, that difference haunts

in my subconsciousness.Indistinct birthtime 10:24-10:28 disturbs still more [10:25 inofficial birth certificate; 20.02.1969, 27e41/62n54].Mark

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Jaya Jagannatha

 

Dear Mark,

Namaste

 

Finally, I read from Vayu Purana, the following:

 

" Those who know Vedas calculate tithis as the basis of festivals and for

charitable gifts on behalf of pitris, they utilize the different occasions. "

- The calculation of tithis is based on the Moon's cycle which forms the 360

savana-day year.

 

Hence, 365+ fraction days per year is the answer to your question.

 

Love,

Swee

 

 

sohamsa [sohamsa ] On Behalf Of

krogermark1969

Saturday, June 03, 2006 1:31 PM

sohamsa

360/365

 

Hi,

 

Do we prefer 360 savana year or 365 solar year in our calculations or

both?

 

I´ve understood that savana year is used in [vimsottari] dasas.

 

First vedic chart with dasas I got [somewhere 1989] was done with 365

years and although I´ve tried to clear dasas, that difference haunts

in my subconsciousness.

 

Indistinct birthtime 10:24-10:28 disturbs still more [10:25 in

official birth certificate; 20.02.1969, 27e41/62n54].

 

 

Mark

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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