Early History of the Dekkan down to the Mahomedan Conquest c24.4

c24.4

Mr Robert Sewell of the Madras Civil Service gives in the first column of the Chronological Tables compiled by him the number of the Śaka years that have expired before the beginning of the cyclic year set against it in the same line in the third column The current Śaka year corresponding to that cyclic year is the one given in the next line in the first column Thus against Śaka 855, the date of the Sângalî grant of Govind IV of the Râshṭrakûṭa dynasty, we have in the third column the cyclic year *Vijaya* which shows that 855 years of the Śaka era *had expired* before the *Vijaya* year began, while the current Śaka year corresponding to *Vijaya* was that given in the next line, *viz* 856 Mr Sewell follows the Madras reckoning If we interpret the tables according to the Bombay mode, the Śaka year appearing in the first column will be the current year corresponding to the cyclic year in the same line in the third column, while the number in the line immediately above will represent the years that have expired before the beginning of that cyclic year Thus against 1805, the current Śaka year on this side of the country, we have in the third column the current cyclic year *Subhânu*, while 1804 in the line above shows the number of years that have expired By comparing the Śaka dates and cyclic years occurring in the inscriptions with those in the tables we shall be able to determine the points raised above