Book of Indian Eras, with Tables for Calculating Indian Dates c15.8

c15.8

But a very much earlier date, presumably of Vikramâditya, has been brought to notice by Dr. Bühler in one of the Gujarât inscriptions of Jayabhata, which, although no era is named, must also certainly be referred to the Vikramâditya Samvat.† He reads the year as "Samvat 486, Sunday, the tenth day of the bright half of Ashâdha-Sudi, when the sun entered the sign of the Scorpion."