The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s8.11

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Then as to the dates in years of the 12-year cycle, General Cunningham himself has placed before us the means of verifying them. In the tables published by him in Volume X. of the Archæological Reports, the cyclic year corresponding to the current Christian year is given, and if we subtract 78 from the number representing the year, we shall arrive at the current S'aka year. Now, if we take the Gupta figured dates to represent the years that had elapsed before the cyclic year commenced, (and this way of marking the dates is, as remarked above, the one we usually find), then 173 Gupta, the third date in the above, corresponds to 414 S'aka past and 415 current, 241 being added in the first case, and 242 in the second. If we add 78 to 415 we shall get the current Christian year, which is 493. Now in General Cunningham's tables we do find the year Mahâśvayu ja given as corresponding to 493 A.D. In the same way, 191 Gupta past + 242 = 433 S'aka current, + 78 = 511 A.D. current. In the tables we find 511 put down under Mahâchaitra. Similarly 209 Gupta past + 242 = 451 S'aka current, + 78 = 529 A.D. current which was Mahâśvayu ja.