[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) › c15.1 # Book of Indian Eras, with Tables for Calculating Indian Dates c15.1 Book of Indian Eras, with Tables for Calculating Indian Dates c15.1 - **Language:** English ### [c15.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.cunningham-1883.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. - [Previous: c14.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.cunningham-1883.c14.4) - [Next: c15.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.cunningham-1883.c15.2) - [Up: c15](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.cunningham-1883.c15) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.cunningham-1883.c15.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.cunningham-1883.c15.1) · Pramāṇa