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Indian Epigraphy: A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the Other Indo-Aryan Languages c10.s3.t3.13

Indian Epigraphy: A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the Other Indo-Aryan Languages c10.s3.t3.13

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c10.s3.t3.13

By way of example of these and the other complications involved in the verification of inscriptional dates, we may cite the Cāndpur boar inscription (ASIR 10, 97; Kielhorn, IA 19, 354 = KS I.556), which is dated *sa[ṃ*]vat *1207 jyeṣṭha-vadi 11 ravau*, that is, Sunday, the eleventh day of the dark fortnight of Jyeṣṭha, [Vikrama] 1207. On the basis of the *Sūrya-siddhānta*,⁶¹ Kielhorn calculated the following possible equivalents of this date: