Book of Indian Eras, with Tables for Calculating Indian Dates c7.26

c7.26

A good example of the Southern mode of reckoning is found in the date of the Kardla copper-plates, in 894 Saka in the year *Angiras*, on Wednesday, the full moon of Aswina, during an eclipse of the moon.* The year *Angiras* is the 6th of the cycle corresponding with 894 Saka (or A.D. 972) of the Southern reckoning. According to the Northern reckoning the year was Srimukha, or the 7th. But, strange to say, the full moon of Aswina was not a Wednesday according to Cowasjee Patell,† who makes the luni-solar year of Saka 894 begin on Tuesday the 19th March 972 A.D. The full moon of Aswina is the 192nd day of the ordinary year, which number divided by 7 gives 3 over, or Thursday the 26th of September for the day of full moon. Now we know that there was an eclipse of the moon on Wednesday the 25th of September A.D. 972, which actually was the full moon of Aswina according to the Northern reckoning of the Sûrya Siddhânta. I have calculated the date by both reckonings, and I find that, by the Southern reckoning, the 1st Vaisâkh of the solar year fell on Friday the 22nd March, and the 1st Chaitra-Sudi of the luni-solar year 4·49 days earlier, or on Monday the 18th March 972 A.D., and not on the 19th as given by Cowasjee Patell. According to the Northern reckoning the 1st Vaisâkh of the solar year fell on Saturday the 23rd March, and the 1st Chaitra-Sudi of the luni-solar year 4·808, or five days earlier,—that is, on Monday the 18th March. By both reckonings, therefore, the full moon of Aswina fell on a Wednesday. But the cycle year of Jupiter agrees with the Southern reckoning.