Book of Indian Eras, with Tables for Calculating Indian Dates c28.1

c28.1

THE *Fasli* Era owes its origin to Akbar's love of innovation. It should properly be dated from the time of his own accession, or the 2nd of Rabi-us-Sâni in the Hijra year 963, or 14th February 1556; but the actual solar reckoning of the Fasli system in Bengal begins with the 1st of Vaisâkh of the Hindu solar year, on Saturday the 28th March, O.S., or Saturday the 6th April, N.S.* In the account published by James Prinsep, the different reckonings of the Fasli calendar in various parts of India are all noticed. It is altogether a mongrel era, the first 963 years being purely lunar ones of the Hijra Calendar, after which the years are purely solar ones, the Bengâli sanh beginning with the 1st of the Hindu Vaisâkh, the Fasli of Northern India with the 1st of the lunar Aswina, and the Vilayati with the 1st of the solar Aswina.