Indian Epigraphy c11.t8.24

c11.t8.24

To quote a few illustrations, the Ipur plates⁶ were issued ‘in the thirtyseventh year of [king Mādhavarman’s] reign of increasing victory, the 15th day of the 7th fortnight of the hot season.’ This date refers to an old practice of dividing the official year into three seasons instead of twelve months.¹ The date of the Sasanakota plates is given as the first regnal year of the donor and the details quoted indicate the 10th tithi of the bright fortnight of the month of Phālguna. These dates cannot be verified owing to the want of the weekday and a known era. The date of Dadda’s grant² is quoted as the year 427 apparently referable to the Kalacuri era and corresponding to 675 A. D., the day being the Rathasaptamī or the 7th of the bright fortnight of the month of Māgha.