Indian Epigraphy c15.t4.29

c15.t4.29

Al-Bīrūnī does not mention the Buddhist and Jain Parinirvāṇa reckonings apparently because he never heard of them. But there is evidence to show that the Buddhists had a sort of rough reckoning calculated from the Buddha’s death. It is however to be remembered that, in ancient India, the dates of this reckoning were usually referred to not by individual years, but by centuries. A few instances may be noticed.