Book of Indian Eras, with Tables for Calculating Indian Dates c6.49

c6.49

I have been thus particular in pointing out the true beginning of each century period of the Lok-Kâl or Sapt-Rishi Chakra in the year 25 of each Christian century, because both Troyer and Wilson, after translating correctly Kalhan’s statement that the year 24 of the Laukika coincided with 1070 of the Saka (or A.D. 1148) have most deliberately and unaccountably thrown over the native historian’s statement and adopted some fancied dates of their own. Thus the 89th year of the Kashmirian cycle, which, as we know from the Baijnâth inscription as well as from Kalhana himself, corresponded with A.D. 813, Troyer refers to A.D. 816, and this error of three years pervades all the dates throughout the first six books of his translation. So also Wilson’s Chronology of Kashmir is throughout twenty-one years in advance of the true dates. How all this happened I cannot even guess, but can only repeat the old saying “aliquando bonus dormitat Homerus.”