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    For the calendars in mainland Southeast Asia, except for Vietnam, see Eade 1989 and 1995. For the Burmese calendar, see Irwin 1909, Silva 1914, and Htoon‐Chan 1918. For the Cambodian calendar, see Faraut 1910. For the Lao calendar, see Phetsarath 1940 and Dupertuis 1981. And also, for the Dai calendar in Yunnan in China, Zhang and Chen (1981) may be consulted. It may also be mentioned here that Casparis (1978) may be consulted for calendars in insular Southeast Asia.

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Ōhashi, Y. (2008). Astronomy in Mainland Southeast Asia. In: Selin, H. (eds) Encyclopaedia of the History of Science, Technology, and Medicine in Non-Western Cultures. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4020-4425-0_8457

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