Book of Indian Eras, with Tables for Calculating Indian Dates c7.32

c7.32

I have also given translations of the Tibetan names, which were derived from the Chinese, for all the sixty years. They are formed by a combination of the names of the twelve animals of the smaller cycle of twelve years with the five elements. The first cycle dates from A.D. 1027, and not from 1026, as stated by Csoma de Körös, and adopted by Prinsep.† At page 181 of his Grammar, Csoma correctly states that "the present year 1834 being the 28th year of the 14th cycle," which gives A.D. 1807 as the first year; and therefore in taking 1026 as the first year of the first cycle, he is one year in error.