Dear @sanjeevsanyal @gurcharandas @bibekdebroy @RohiniBakshi Any clue if there was a concept of weekly off for work in ancient India?
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So apart from monsoons, when did people take off, if they did?
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True, the lunar halves. But the week did exist.
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Week came in picture after we roman calendar & we named days.
@authoramish@sanjeevsanyal@anuradhagoyal@gurcharandas -
Word Saptah - did it exist before? When did we adopt Roman Calendar?
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its cycles of moon ... ekadashi&ammavasya bookending
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