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 ngin are placed as shown in table VI. In columns 10 and 11 the year 1292 is shown as 108 seconds longer than any other year in the table by reason of the correction described in paragraph 55.

141. Table III is an alternative to table II. It embodies the suggestions made in paragraphs 116 to 127 for removing all doubts, simplifying the regulation of future calendars, and keeping lent in its proper season by using de Cheseaux's cycle of 1040 years. The cycle would commence in 1281, ( 1919), and in the ten years preceding that year one intercalary day more than Thandeikta would allow is inserted in order to bring the calendar months into nearer conformity with mean and apparent lunations (paragraph 125). The times of mean new moon are omitted as they would be a mere repetition of the times shown in table II. The hour, minute and second of Thingyan Tet are omitted because it is proposed that Thingyan Tet should in future be fixed at midnight (paragraph 124). In this table the watat years happen to be the same as in table II (para. 128); the yet-ngin are placed according to the rule set out in paragraph 127.

142. Table IV exhibits the elements of the Arakanese calendar for 262 years, in the same form as table III except that a special column is retained for the English date of Thingyan Tet because that date continues to change slowly in consequence of the error in the length of the Makaranta solar year (paragraph 36), whereas in table III Thingyan Tet is fixed for all time at 8th April and it therefore requires no separate column for the English date.

143. Table V is copied by permission of Mr. Htoon Chan from his book. It shows the week-day on which the Labyi of Wazo falls in Arakan each year for 2000 years. It also shows the watat, in this way. When two consecutive years have the same week-day figure, the later of the two is a wagyitat. When the later of two consecutive years has a weck-day figure either I less or 6 more than that of the preceding year, the later year is a wa-ngè-tat.

144. Table VI exhibits the results of the calculations by which the intercalary days were placed in table II, column 18. See paragraphs 88 to 100.

145. Table VII compares the moon's age at midnight of solar New Year's Day, as found from European sources, with the same as found by Makaranta methods. Column 2 shows approximately, in days and hours, the European computation for mean new moon, Mandalay civil time. Column 3 shows solar New Year's Day. Column 4 shows the moon's age as calculated from columns 2 and 3, expressed in days and hours. Column 5 shows the moon's age as calculated by Makaranta, expressed in didi and fraction. The differences are very small. The Burmese computations put the mean new moon slightly later than the European ones.