Crossword-Solution: ARYABHATA 9 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 17

The result of the use of this sidereal solar year is that the beginning of the Hindu astronomical solar year, and with it the civil solar year and the lunar year and the nominal incidence of the seasons, has always been, and still is, travelling slowly forward in our calendar year by an amount which varies according to the particular authority.[1] For instance, Aryabhata's year exceeds the Julian year by 12 min.

Accordingly, an attempt was made by a small band of reformers to rectify this state of things by introducing a precessional calendar, taking as the first lunar month the synodic lunation in which the sun enters the tropical Aries, instead of the sidereal Mesha; and the publication was started, in or about 1886, of the Sayana-Pañchang or "Precessional Almanac." Further, the Hindu sidereal solar year is in excess of the true mean sidereal year by (if we use Aryabhata's value) 3 min.