Book of Indian Eras, with Tables for Calculating Indian Dates c26.38

c26.38

Before closing this account I must notice a very serious error into which Babu Râjendra has fallen about Lakshmana Sena himself. After having translated the Buddha Gaya inscription dated in S. 74, which declares that the era of Lakshmana Sena began “after the expiration” of his reign, he on the very next page makes the era date from the beginning of his reign.* Thus he says, “Beginning with (A.D.) 1106 Lakshmana had a very prosperous reign of many years.” And again he says, “A period of 30 years would not be too much . . . and Lakshmana’s reign may very fairly be assumed to have extended to the close of the fourth decade of the 12th Century.” So that the year 1706 A.D. was both the beginning and the end of Lakshmana’s reign. Again on page 402, in his list of the Sena Rajas, he gives A.D. 1106 as the beginning of Lakshmana’s reign. Lastly, in page 397, in speaking of the Tarpondighi inscription, which is dated in the 7th year of Lakshmana’s own reign, he notes that no attempt had been made to trace the initial date of the era.