The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s12.193

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³ The Kaliyuga era is of extremely exceptional use in epigraphic records. The only instances that I can quote are the present one, and some of the records of the Kâdambas of Goa, ranging from A.D. 1167 to 1247 (see chapter VIII. below), which, for some capricious reason, are dated in the Kaliyuga, without any reference to the *Saka* era at all, though other records of the same family are dated in the *Saka* era and in that alone. In the present case, the Kaliyuga era is quoted a little indirectly; the statement of the original being that three thousand seven hundred and thirty-five years had elapsed from the Bhârata war, and that five hundred and fifty-six years of the *Saka* kings had expired (in their own era as a subdivision of the Kali age (the figures of which are marked by those of the Bhârata war). The equation, however, — 3735 years expired from the Bhârata war = *Saka-Saṁvat* 556 expired, — is in exact accordance with the reckoning of the Kaliyuga, as given in the published tables (e.g., General Sir Alexander Cunningham's *Book of Indian Eras*) and in the Hindu almanacs (see, e.g., *Gupta Inscriptions*, Introd. pp. 138 to 141, and *Ind. Ant.* Vol. XX. p. 150). Kaliyuga-Saṁvat 1 current was B. C. 3102-3101.