Yajnavalkya 95 Years Cycle

The lunar calendar is based on the cycle of the Moon and consists of 12 months of 29.5 days each. This means that the lunar calendar is about 11 days shorter than the solar calendar, which is based on the Earth's orbit around the Sun.^{[citation needed]}

The Yajnavalkya 95-year cycle corrects this difference by adding an extra month (Adhik Maasa) to the lunar calendar every 32.5 years. This means that there will be 71 lunar years and 70 solar years in a 95-year cycle.^[5]

There is a logic behind this cycle that if the year is counted as 360 Tithis, then this leads to exactly 35 intercalary months (with a residual small error) in 95 years.^{[citation needed]}

Yajnavalkya 95-years cycle consisted of five sub cycles of 19 years. The sub cycle of 19 years is called as Metonic Cycle in the modern times. The cycle of 19 years had been derived from the cycle of 95 years.^[4]

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