Indian Epigraphy c15.t20.5

c15.t20.5

But the inscriptions dated in the era variously equate the following four years with its first year: (1) Śaka 997 = Rākṣasa = 1075-76 A.D., (2) Śaka 998 = Nala (Anala) = 1076-77 A.D., (3) Śaka 999 = Piṅgala = 1077-78 A.D., and (4) Śaka 1000 = Kālayukti = 1078-79 A.D.² This fact shows that there was a good deal of confusion in the people's minds as regards the initial year of the era. It is also not certain that Vikramāditya VI was crowned on Caitra-sudi 1, i.e. on the first day of a Śaka and cyclic year. A. Venkatasubbiah suggests that the king's coronation took place either in Śaka 997 (1075-76 A.D.) or in Śaka 998 (1076-77 A.D.) and that the exact date of the event cannot be determined.³ He seems to be right. The confusion, referred to above, was apparently due to the fact that the authority of Vikramāditya VI was not recognised at the same time in all parts of the dominions of his brother and predecessor Someśvara II who is known to have ruled as late as the 1st September 1076 A.D.⁴ Thus we may add 1076 to a year of the Cālukya-Vikrama year in order to get its approximate Christian equivalent.