> amavasya day this year! 3rd Regnl yr of RR means, 3rd yr after Aadi > punarvasu of 985...
One more addition. The yandu as they called each regnal year (not aandu as we know it today) was not 365 days ! It was less than that and Kudanthai sethuraman did some important calculations based on his discovery of how many days constituted one yandu
Thanq Gokul for that nice explanation.By the way I take it that Adi Punarvasu 985 corresponds to the year of ascension to the throne of RR. Is any one familiar with ephimeris calculations of the kind the late L.D.Swamikkannupillai used to perform? GR