Book of Indian Eras, with Tables for Calculating Indian Dates c5.15

c5.15

that is, Samvatsara 83, Grishma 2 Paksha, Divasa 10; or, “on the 10th day of the 2nd fortnight of Grishma in the year 83.” But as the names of the Hindu months of Chaitra, Vaisâkha, Ashâdha, and Srâvana are found in the Indo-Scythian inscriptions from Gândhâra, along with the Macedonian names of Daisios, Apellaios, and Artemisios, during the reigns of Kanishka and Huvishka, it is difficult to say which of the two systems of naming the lunar fortnights may be the older. I have a suspicion, however, that the indigenous nomenclature may have been by numbering, and that the other method of waxing and waning fortnights may have been borrowed from the Greek μηνες ισταμενου and μηνoς φθινοντος.