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24 SAMAGRA TILAK -2 • THE ORION
all the religious ceremonies . prescribed to be performed in the
Uttar4)'alla, are performed during the Uttariyapa beginning with
the winter solstice, a position quite the reverse of that described
by Garga. When we ·at the present day have been thus using the
~ystem of a double year-beginning, we need not be surprised if
the ancient Aryas, after shifting the commencement of the year
to th~ winter solstice, managed to keep up the old and the new
system together by assigning the different beginnings of the year
to different purposes as "indicated by Garga. It was the only altetioo
native possible if nothing old was to be entirely given up .
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