Sentence examples for cycle of years from inspiring English sources

During the period of elaboration of the classical Hindu astronomy, which was definitively expounded in the treatises called siddhāntas and by authors such as Aryabhata (born ad 476), Varāhamihira, Brahmagupta (7th century ad), etc., the ancient Vedic notions on the cycle of years, embracing round numbers of solar and lunar years together, were developed.

In one stele he is portrayed with a rope tied around his neck, and in another with an incense bag, together signifying a sacrifice to end a cycle of years.

Each of the days, months, years and cycles of years according to this system is named after an attribute of Divinity -- such as Glory, Grandeur, Mercy, etc.

It is faithful to continue around and around like the daily repetition of our lives and the cycles of years and life and death cycles.

It is based on the Metonic cycle of 19 years, a "solar cycle" of 28 years, and the Indiction cycle of 15 years.

Among them, the maximum shortening of the seismic cycle is about 57 years for the original cycle of 149 years, corresponding to a shortening of about 40%% of the original cycle.

(2) The annual baseflow variation of the four headstreams appeared to have cycles of 3 5 years, 10 14 years, and 25 years.

Also, their training will be extended to eight years from six, adding a "second cycle" of two years during which students would work in public service posts.

Six cycles of 8.6 years added up to a long-wave cycle of 51.6 years, which separated such phenomena as Black Friday and the commodity panic of 1920, and the Second and Third Punic Wars.

Assessments were made every five years; later, the system was consolidated into a cycle of 15 years called an indictio.

The government does not envisage a downward expansion of the primary school cycle of six years to include pre-primary education for five-year-olds.