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²⁷ Some medieval and later records from Orissa recorded regnal years counted according to the *aṅka* system in which the first year and all years whose unit figure is 6 or 0, except for 10, are skipped over (i.e., the years 1, 6, 16, 20, 26, etc.); see IA 19, 1890, 255–6, and Monmohan Chakravarti, JASB 72, part 1, 1903, 100. Thus, e.g., a period enumerated as twenty-five regnal years according to the *aṅka* system corresponds to only twenty-one normal years (EI 28, 1949–50, 242). There were evidently several variations of this system, which is sometimes said to be based on a sixty-year cycle; see further G. Ramadas, JBORS 17, 1931, 179–80; R. Subrahmanyam, *Inscriptions of the Sūryavaṃśī Gajapatis of Orissa*, xxxi–ii; and A. K. Bhattacharyya, *A Corpus of Dedicatory Inscriptions from Temples of West Bengal*, Appendix B, 190–1.