Book of Indian Eras, with Tables for Calculating Indian Dates c6.41

c6.41

As the Lok-Kâl of this description differs from that which has been in use for many centuries throughout Kashmir and all the hill states of the Punjâb and Cis-Sutlej districts, it appears to me either that the Lok-Kâl of Sindh and Multân must have had a different starting point from that of Kashmir, or that Abu Rihân must have been puzzled by conflicting accounts which he obtained from various persons who, perhaps, had but little knowledge of the subject. The latter, I conclude, to have been most probably the case, as Abu Rihân candidly acknowledges the imperfectness of his account, and warns the reader that the results which he gives are uncertain, as several of the numbers (of the centenary cycles) exceed 100.