[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Archaeology, epigraphy and coins](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy) › [Book of Indian Eras, with Tables for Calculating Indian Dates](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.cunningham-1883) › c7.3 # Book of Indian Eras, with Tables for Calculating Indian Dates c7.3 Book of Indian Eras, with Tables for Calculating Indian Dates c7.3 - **Language:** English ### [c7.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.cunningham-1883.c7.3) There are three different modes of reckoning the cycle of sixty years, of which the oldest is certainly that preserved by Varâha Mihira, as the first year of the Kâli-Yuga, by his account, is the twenty-seventh year of the Jovian Cycle. The second is the reckoning of the Jyotishtava, which is clearly only a correction of Varâha Mihira's method, as it makes the first year of the cycle correspond with the first year of the Kâli-Yuga. Both of these reckonings have been in use in Northern India, where the necessary omission of every eighty-sixth year of the Jovian Cycle has always been preserved. The third method is the reckoning followed in the south of India, by which the Jovian year is considered exactly the same as the solar year, and the names are taken in succession, without any correction for the difference between the period of one revolution of the sun and that of one-twelfth part of a revolution of Jupiter. By this mode of reckoning the actual Cycle of Jupiter is entirely lost sight of, and the sixty names become simply the appellations of as many solar years. - [Previous: c7.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.cunningham-1883.c7.2) - [Next: c7.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.cunningham-1883.c7.4) - [Up: c7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.cunningham-1883.c7) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.cunningham-1883.c7.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.cunningham-1883.c7.3) · Pramāṇa