Book of Indian Eras, with Tables for Calculating Indian Dates c2.45

c2.45

To show how easy it is to make mistakes in dates, it will be sufficient to state that the Emperor Bâber has given the wrong date for his own famous battle of Khânwa, in which he defeated Râna Sangrâm of Mewâr. Bâber says that it took place on Saturday, the 13th of the second Jamâdi, A.H. 933, which both Erskine and Dowson make the 16th March A.D. 1527.† That the name of the week day is correct we learn from Shekh Zein-uddin, who repeats the name in the following quotation from the Korân: "Since God has given a blessing on your Saturday." But the 13th of the second Jamâdi was a Sunday as will be seen from Bâber's own statements of other dates in the same year. Thus he calls—