Book of Indian Eras, with Tables for Calculating Indian Dates c15.1

c15.1

The Vikrâmâditya Samvat, or era of Vikrâmâditya, is reckoned from the vernal equinox of the year 57 B.C., and the completion of the Kâli-Yuga year 3044. It is used all over Northern India, except in Bengal, where the Saka era has been generally adopted. It is used also in Telingâna and Gujarât; but in the latter province the year does not begin until seven months later than in the north, or with the 1st of Kârtik-Sudi, which now falls during October, but which, at the beginning of the Christian era, fell between the middle of September and the middle of October.