Indian Epigraphy c15.t11.35

c15.t11.35

A.D.) mention *Mahārāja* Aśokacalla of the Khasa country in the Sapādalakṣa hills, while the record of the year 83 speaks of *Ācārya* Jayasena, the lord of Pīṭhī and the son of Buddhasena. Another inscription¹ from Gaya, dated in the year 1813 of the Buddha’s Parinirvāṇa era, Kārttika-badi 1, Wednesday, mentions the said Aśokacalla, king of the Sapādalakṣa hills. According to the Ceylonese Buddha Parinirvāṇa era prevalent also in Burma and Siam and believed to have started from 544 B.C.,² the year 1813 would correspond to 1269-70 A.D. In 1270 A.D. the first *tithi* of the dark half of *Pūrṇimānta* Kārttika fell on Wednesday the 1st of October.³