Book of Indian Eras, with Tables for Calculating Indian Dates c9.4

c9.4

The era of the Kâli-Yuga was in use down to the time of Varâha Mihira, who first introduced the use of the Saka era into Astronomical works. Aryabhata, who was not more than fifty years prior to him, still computed by the era of the Kâli-Yuga.† The initial point of the era seems to have been a traditional date of the period of the great war, which had been handed down perhaps for ages. This date of 3102 B.C.