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Though we have received much information concerning the astronomy of the Hindoos, we know but little of their civil year, and its divisions; and what accounts of it we have re­ceived vary much from each other, owing partly, as will be seen, to different methods being used in different parts of India. As it occurred to me, that the best way by which a person in Europe could clear up the difficulties in this subject, would be to examine thepatras , or almanacs, published by the Hin­doos themselves, I applied to Mr. Wilkins, well known for his skill in the Sanskreet language, who was so good as to lend me three such, and assist me in finding out their mean­ing. One of them was procured by Mr. Wilkins at Benares, and is computed for that place. The second came from Tanna, in the island of Salsette, near Bombay; but it appears to be the copy of a Benares patra, as it is disposed in the same form as the first, and is adapted to the same latitude and longitude. The third is computed for Nadeea, a town of Bengal, about 50 miles N. of Calcutta, almost as noted for learned men as Benares, and much frequented by students from the coast of 24°, is called the second teethee; and so on till the full moon; after which the teethees return in the same order as before.

XX. On the civil tear of the Hindoos, and its divisions; with an account of three Hindoo almanacs belonging to Charles Wilkins, Esq