Indian Epigraphy c6.s4.20

c6.s4.20

With reference to the introduction of popular eras in ancient India, it may be noticed that even in earlier times there appears to have been a tendency to regard the dates of the death of the Buddha and of Mahāvīra and that of the battle of Kurukṣetra as some sort of epochs of eras. But the Buddhist and Jain Nirvāṇa reckonings were nothing like popular eras and often particular events were placed in a century of such a reckoning.