Book of Indian Eras, with Tables for Calculating Indian Dates c51.6

c51.6

As an example of the use of this Dakhini cycle, I may cite the date of the Kurda inscription (Royal Asiat. Soc. Jour., III., 104), which is recorded as Sake 894 (A.D. 972), with the Jupiter year named Angiras. As this is the 6th name, we obtain the date intended by adding 5 years to the 1st year of the cycle, which began previously to A.D. 972. This is A.D. 967, to which adding 5 we get 972 A.D., in exact accordance with the Sake date of 894.