Book of Indian Eras, with Tables for Calculating Indian Dates c19.7

c19.7

The other correction is in the day of the month in the year 898, which I read as Aswina-Sudi 7, instead of Aswina-Sudi 2, which a fresh examination has shown it to be. As the 7th was a Saturday (as noted in my previous account), the 2nd was of course a Monday, as stated in the inscription. We have thus got no less than eight dates, all which agree in placing the initial point of the Chedi or Kalâchuri era in A.D. 249—the year 250 being reckoned as 1.