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face the criticism of the traditionalists who argued against such improvements and criticized him for his scientific zeal. Ragoonathachary’s
Drigganitha Panchang not only provided the traditional five calendarical elements but also provided concordance with English months and dates. Therefore, this Panchang was of more practical utility; native officials working in government establishments or those dealing with government found it handy. At the end of a lot of, often acrimonious, Drig vs. Vakya debate, a meeting was called at Sankara Mutt at
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A large number of manuals have been composed describing the Drik system. Since the results obtained using the
Drigganita system are more accurate, the astronomers and astrologers use the system for casting horoscopes, for conducting astrological queries and for the computations of eclipses. However,
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when there would be none. As the traditional almanac was seen to be quite inaccurate, Chatre and
Khetkar in Bombay, Venkatakrishna Raya and Ragoonathachari in Madras proposed Drigganitha Panchang to replace the traditional Panchang computations based on the Vakya Panchang. Ragoonathachari had to
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is also the title of a book authored by
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