On Friday 09 Jul 2010, Pratik Anand wrote:
I am making a simple symbian app in Python which will take Gregorian calendar date from user and convert it to Vikram Sanvat /Shak samvat of Vedic calendar.
With a bit of Googling I managed to find:
http://www.math.nus.edu.sg/aslaksen/projects/lcl.pdf
which goes into calculations in great detail and also has code (I think in Mathematica) embedded. Apart from that, there are a few links that may be useful at:
http://www.math.nus.edu.sg/aslaksen/calendar/indian.shtml
And finally, a look at the Astrolog source code may be be able to give you some insight into the calculations themselves... Astrolog does do a Vedic chart too, so presumably it can do calculations for Indian calendars.
I'd appreciate it if you (a) released whatever code you write under a FOSS licence and (b) kept the list (or at least me) posted on progress in the app.
Now over to the GPL vs BSD fanatics who will help you decide which licence to use for your code ;-)
Regards,
-- Raju