Book of Indian Eras, with Tables for Calculating Indian Dates c7.37

c7.37

It is perhaps only accidental that the year 1027 is also the beginning of the 60-year cycle in Southern India. But the coincidence is curious. In China the cycle began in 1024 A.D., a fact which is proved by the numbers attached to the Tibetan names in the accompanying table, which shows that three years of the Chinese or Tibetan cycle names had already passed when the Indian cycle, commencing with Prabhava, began.