This short text describes two kinds of new year:
- The first day of Fravardīn was the start of the “calculated” year consisting of 365 days and six hours and fraction of an hour;
- The sixth day of Fravardīn was the start of the new year after the edict of Yima Xšaēta.
As we see, this evidence confirms the thesis that the “calculated” year (ušmurdīg) was not the fixed 365-day year (the so-called “civil” year), but a sideral year.
From the Codex TD 26:
