Early History of the Dekkan down to the Mahomedan Conquest c23.8

c23.8

Now, as to the first of the above tests, Gupta 165 + 241 = 406 Śaka If Albîrunî is correct, the 12th Âshâḍha Sudi of this year should be a Thursday I asked my friend Professor Keru Lakshman Chhatre to make the calculation for me, and he tells me that it was a Thursday Since our astronomical methods are based on the past Śaka year, and even our present Śaka year 1805 really represents, as I shall show in the next Appendix, the years that have elapsed, the current year being really 1806, Gupta 165 was a past year, as well as Śaka 406 Hence only 241 has to be added Śaka 406 corresponds to 484 A D General Cunningham takes the Gupta 165 to correspond to 483 A D, adding 240 + 78 = 318 to it, and of course arrives at the result that "the 12th day of Âshâḍha Sudi was a Friday instead of a Thursday " If, however, he had added This image appears to be a blank or entirely white scanned page containing no readable text or page furniture, with only a small stray mark near the bottom right margin.