Note 565 — Chapter VI · LUNAR CALENDARS AND THE WEEK
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A. Weber, in Indische Studien, 1853, ii, 166 n.*; H. Zimmer, Altindisches Leben, Berlin, 1879, p. 364; G. Thibaut, “Astronomie, Astrologie, und Mathematik,” Bühler’s Grundriss der indo-arischen Philologie und Altertumskunde, iii, pt. ix, 12. This lunar fortnight of the Hindus attracted the attention of the Romans, and Quintus Curtius speaks of it as a noteworthy fact (Historiæ Alexandri Magni, viii, 9). References to it are also found in mediæval literature; compare Albîrûnî, op. cit., i, 359.