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                   Release of version 0.01 of Date::Indian
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NAME
    Date::Indian is a pure perl module used to represent traditional Indian calender dates of Saka era.  Both Official Saka calendar dates and traditional luni-solar almanac dates are supported.

SYNOPSIS
	use Date::Indian;
	my $date = Date::Indian->new();  # Get Indian almanac date for today!
	my $d = Date::Indian->new('1990-12-20 10:30:20 -5:30'); 
        There are various calendrical services provided by the module.
	Consult documentation for details.

DESCRIPTION
	This module provides all important services needed to compile
	an almanac for an Indian calendrical system.

	Consult the documentation for details of services.

INSTALLATION

    It's all pure Perl, so just put the .pm file in its appropriate
    local Perl subdirectory.


AUTHOR
    Syamala Tadigadapa.


COPYRIGHT
           Copyright (c) 2001, Syamala Tadigadapa. All Rights Reserved.
         This module is free software. It may be used, redistributed
        and/or modified under the terms of the Perl Artistic License
             (see http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html)

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CHANGES IN VERSION 0.01


          This is the first release.
	    An alpha release.

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AVAILABILITY

Unicode::Indic has been uploaded to the CPAN


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