خلاصه ماشینی:
Persian and Arabic Calendars as Presented by Anania Shirkatsi Grigor Broutian Viktor Ambartsumian Museum of National Academy of Sciences of Armenia gbroutian@gmail.
Fourteen of these -indicated by Anania as Hebrews, Arabs, Macedonians, Romans, Syrians, Greeks, Egyptians, Ethiopians, Athenians, Bythanians, Cappadocians, Georgians, Albanians1, and Persians2-had their calendars 3 parallel presented in the part of Anania’s Tomar called “Kharnakhoran”.
This was a set of especially constructed large tables, twelve in number, showing all the days of the year on separate lines indicating the New Year day, the beginning of each month, the days of the equinoxes and solstices, as well as the important feast days of all the calendars belonging to the nations mentioned above.
Indeed, all the calendars of the above mentioned fourteen nations in Anania’s Tomar are presented according to the Julian system, where the years have an average length of 365.
For these reasons, Anania did not include the Armenian calendar in the Kharnakhoran, instead, presenting it separately in the detailed 532-year tables as well as some other auxiliary tables.
In the manuscripts of Anania’s Tomar, besides the Armenian, Roman, Hebrew, Syrian, Greek and Egyptian calendars no other calendars are known to contain detailed explanatory texts; only the names of months, their length and their doubles (“krknak” 2 in Armenian, which refers to the two 1.
The difference between the new year days of the calendars presented by Anania may be due to some indigenous traditions of these nations.