Early History of the Dekkan down to the Mahomedan Conquest c24.3

c24.3

¹ * It will be obvious to any careful reader that the manner in which the question here proposed for solution is stated, is based upon the ordinary view that Śaka 1805 was the current year in 1883-84. I have no right to assume in the beginning of my inquiry that the ordinary view is mistaken, and it would be unscientific to do so. But having stated the question in that manner, I come at the end of my inquiry to the conclusion that the ordinary view is incorrect, and that 1805 Śaka was *not current* in 1883-84 A. D. but *past*, and that the Madras way of understanding the matter alone is correct. In the previous note also I have stated that "we now mistake the year 1805 Śaka for the *current* year" (in 1883-84). So that there is no possibility whatever of any body misunderstanding my meaning.