Book of Indian Eras, with Tables for Calculating Indian Dates c25: XX.—Châlukya Era
Book of Indian Eras, with Tables for Calculating Indian Dates c25
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XX.—Châlukya Era
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IN the Châlukya inscriptions the dates are generally recorded in the Sâka era. But in the year *Nala* of the Jovian cycle of 60 years, or A.D. 1076,* the Châlukya king Vikramâditya Tribhuvana Malla established a new era called the *Châlukya Vikrama Varsha*. From his own inscription we learn that he set aside "the ancient Saka, and established the Vikrama Saka in his own name."† He reigned for fifty-one years from Saka 998 to 1049. His era dates from his accession in Saka 998, or A.D. 1076. He was one of the most powerful of the Châlukya kings, and his era seems to have been adopted by some of the neighbouring princes. Thus the Kadamba king Tailapa Deva dates one of his inscriptions on "Monday, the full moon day called Herjuggi (or Aswina) of the *Sarvadhâri* Samvatsara, which was the thirty-third year of the glorious *Châlukya Vikrama Varsha*." Sarvadhâri, the twenty-second year of the cycle, fell in A.D. 1108 in Southern India, and as it was the thirty-third year of the new Châlukaya era, the first year must have fallen in 1108 - 32 = 1076 A.D.
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† Royal Asiatic Society's Journal, IV, 14.
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After the death of Vikrama in A.D. 1127 the power of the Châlukyas began rapidly to decline, and in Saka 1084, or A.D. 1162, their throne was seized by Vijala Kalâchuri, after which their era would seem to have fallen into disuse.
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∗ Brown's Cyclic Tables, pp. 2, 57.