This would seem to imply that his choice of noon was not, as is sometimes stated, made in order to allow all observations from a given night to be recorded with the same date
बहुदा ही सत्ताविसावी रात्र असते असे मानले जाते, परंतु त्याबद्दल निश्चिती नसल्याने शेवटच्या दहा दिवसातील विषम दिनाच्या रात्रीपैकी ती कोणतीही एक रात्र असू शकते.