Book of Indian Eras, with Tables for Calculating Indian Dates c23.15

c23.15

Here the date which is very clearly inscribed can only be referred to the Burmese common era of A.D. 638, which fixes the period of Dharma Raja Guru’s visit to 391 + 638 = A.D. 1029. Now the account of the later mission of “the younger Pyu-Sakheng” shows that it must have followed not long after Dharma Raja Guru’s Mission. I therefore read the two dates as 441 and 448, in preference to the very much later dates of 667 and 668, which had been generally adopted previously. I have tested all the possible readings of these dates as 641, 647, 661, 667, 648, and 668, by the week days mentioned in the inscription. Not one of them stands this test, whereas the two dates of 441 and 448 which I have adopted do actually agree with the week days recorded in the inscription. The evidence in favour of my readings is, therefore, doubly strong. The later history of the temple will therefore be as follows: