Book of Indian Eras, with Tables for Calculating Indian Dates c4.2

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N.B.—Page 45—add at foot: If the correction of Kallippus of 1 day in 76 years had been adopted by the Seleukidæ, then the year 2 of their era would have begun on the 2nd October 312 B.C., and every succeeding 77th year would also have begun on the same day of the corresponding Christian year. Thus the following years of the Seleukidan era would all have begun on the 2nd October:— An. Sel. 1, 77, 153, 229, 305, 381, 457, 533, 609 In B.C. 312, 236, 160, 84, 8, A.D. 69, 145, 221, 297 The fact that the battle of Arbela was fought on the 2nd October 331 B.C., near the end of the month of Gorpiæus, shows that the Macedonians of Alexander’s army had not adopted the corrected Calendar of Kallippus, otherwise the 2nd of October would have been the 1st of Hyperberetæus.