Elements of South-Indian Palæography, from the Fourth to the Seventeenth Century A.D. c6.s5.t2.4

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² This system was first explained by v. Schlegel. Here (as is so perpetually the case in Indian literature) we find that the present system has had predecessors. In the 'Jyotisha' (see Profr. Weber's ed. p. 6) ǎya = 4; yuga = 12; bhasamūha = 27; rūpa = 1. In the 'Chandas' similar expressions occur.—In the above list I give firstly those words given by Albīrūnī about which there can be no doubt; then others mentioned by Mr. C. P. Brown which I mark \*. Lastly I add terms not already mentioned, which I have found in inscriptions, and which I mark †. This system is also used in the Javanese inscriptions. See v. Humboldt's "Kawi-Sprache" i., pp. 19-42. Crawford "On Hindu Religion in Bali." *As. Res.* xiii., pp. 150-1. See also on the Javanese calendar, Gericke in "Verhandelingen" (xvi., pp. 65-80). "Iets over de Javaansche Tijdrekening"; and Cohen-Stuart's Essay in the "Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch-Indie", 1850, i. pp. 215-324.