Book of Indian Eras, with Tables for Calculating Indian Dates c18.37

c18.37

It is true that this date is about five months earlier than the actual date of the record. But this is not a difficulty of any consequence, as we have a similar interval between the actual date of a grant and the date of its record on copper in the Râjim inscription of Tivara Deva, king of Kosala. His grant was made on the 12th of the solar month of Jyeshta, but was not recorded until the 8th of Kârtika, or just four days less than five months later. The day of the month I have read myself, as it is not given by Wilson in his Translation, see Asiatic Researches, Vol. XV. The eighth day of Kârtik is recorded both in words and in figures.