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² Crawfurd's ‘Embassy to Ava,’ vol. ii. p. 277. The “year of Religion” or “Buddhavarsha” era, like the Sinhalese era, dates from 543 b.c., but this reckoning appears to be of comparatively late origin, the earlier dates being reckoned from 482 b.c., so that the date here mentioned would belong to 382 b.c.—‘Journal of the Royal Asiatic Society,’ 1909, pp. 326ff. and 344f. The present Burmese Sakkarâj era commences in a.d. 639, on the sun's entrance into Aries.