Indian Epigraphy c6.s5.35

c6.s5.35

There are often discrepancies in the same account quoted in different records of a family. Thus the date of the accession of the Eastern Gaṅga king Kāmārṇava (1147-56 A.D.) is quoted correctly in the Dasgoba plates¹ of 1198 A.D. and the Nagari plates² of 1230-31 A.D. as the Śaka year counted by *nanda* (9), *ṛtu* (6), *vyoman* (0) and *candra* (1), which according to the *vāmagati* principle would yield Śaka 1069, corresponding to 1147 A.D. But all the later charters of the family, so far discovered, wrongly read *veda* (4) in the place of *nanda* (9) and thus make the date five years earlier. This mistake must have crept into the later records of the Gaṅgas exactly as errors usually creep into manuscripts in the process of copying.