Indian Epigraphy c15.s2.t5.2

c15.s2.t5.2

It is a ninety-year cycle supposed to start from the current Kali year 3076 (24 B.C.). It is prevalent in the Madurai region of the Tamil-speaking area. As in the case of the Saptarṣi cycle of 100 years, the years of this cycle are counted from 1 to 90 and then again from 1 without being continued after 90. We get the number of the year in this cycle by adding 72 to the number of the current Kali year and then dividing the result by 90. Another way of getting it is to add 11 to the number of the current Śaka year and then to divide the result by 90. The era was apparently fabricated by astronomers.