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One of the five canonical astronomy schools of 505 CE India is called Romaka — "the Roman." Varāhamihira's Pañcasiddhāntikā ranks it among the top three for accuracy, and its parameters give the game away: a calendar cycle of 2,850 years — exactly 150 Greek Metonic cycles of 19 years — with days reckoned from sunset at Yavanapura: Alexandria. Indian astronomers didn't hide their Greco-Roman sources; they cited them, tested them, and ranked them.

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The luni-solar yuga of the Romaka comprises 2850 years ; (in these) there are 1050 adhimasas and 16547 omitted lunar days.
The Panchasiddhantika: The Astronomical Work of Varaha Mihira, tr. G. Thibaut & Sudhakara Dvivedi (1889)ch1.v15
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