[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Archaeology, epigraphy and coins](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy) › [Book of Indian Eras, with Tables for Calculating Indian Dates](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.cunningham-1883) › c13.18 # Book of Indian Eras, with Tables for Calculating Indian Dates c13.18 Book of Indian Eras, with Tables for Calculating Indian Dates c13.18 - **Language:** English ### [c13.18](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.cunningham-1883.c13.18) In the Indo-Scythian inscriptions, the names of four different Macedonian months have been found,—namely, Panemos, Daisios, Apellaios, and Artemisios. The occurrence of these names shows incontestably that the Macedonian Calendar must have been introduced into Kabul and North-Western India by the Bactrian Greeks, and as the province to the west of the Indus had belonged to Seleukus, I conclude that the era of the Seleukidæ must have been adopted there also. Unfortunately, the year dates hitherto discovered are all small numbers, which might refer to some recently established era of the Indo-Scythians, or, as suggested by Mr. Thomas, they may possibly refer to the Seleukidan era by leaving out the hundreds, which was the common Indian mode of reckoning the year of the Saptârshi-kâl. With the Indo-Scythian inscriptions, for instance, the dates of 9, 11, 18, and 28 of Kanishka, and of 33, 39, 47, and 51 of Huvishka, might either be referred to a new era, such as the Saka-kâl of 78 A.D., or to the years 9, 11, 18, &c., of the fifth Seleukidan century, by leaving out 400. In the former case, the year 9 of Kanishka would be 78 + 9 = 87 A.D., while in the latter case it would be referred to the year 409 of the Seleukidan era, equal to A.D. 97-98. - [Previous: c13.17](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.cunningham-1883.c13.17) - [Next: c13.19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.cunningham-1883.c13.19) - [Up: c13](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.cunningham-1883.c13) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.cunningham-1883.c13.18](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.cunningham-1883.c13.18) · Pramāṇa