Book of Indian Eras, with Tables for Calculating Indian Dates c26.14

c26.14

6. A copper-plate inscription of Siva Sinha Deva, Raja of Tirhut, gives the following dates:—“*Lakshmana Samvat* 293, *Srâvana-Sudi* 7, *Gurau*,” coupled with “*Saka* 1321, and *Samvat* 1455.” The Saka date is equivalent to A.D. 1399, but the Vikrama date of 1455 gives A.D. 1398. The difference between the two dates is only 134 years instead of 135. This difference was also noticed by Buchanan, who states that Kamala-kânta, the most learned Brahman in the Rangpur district, made the Samvat era begin 134 years before that of Saka.‡ In the Mithila district he found the same, as he notes (see No. 2) that the year 1810 A.D. was reckoned as Sake 1732 and Samvat 1866, with only 134 years’ difference. As the Sake date is the correct one, I have adopted it in preference to the Samvat date, which is but little used in Bengal. But the best proof of its accuracy is the fact that it agrees with the week day mentioned in the copper-plate. The dates are Thursday the 7th Srâvana-Sudi, 1321 Sake, or A.D. 1399. As the proof of this is very simple, I give it here as another example of the general accuracy of the tables for working out any luni-solar date. Sake 1321 = Kâli-Yuga 4500—