A History of Assam c25.s2.4

c25.s2.4

The Ahoms commence their first cycle in the year 568 A.D., so that in order to ascertain the year in our era, corresponding to an Ahom *lākli*, the number of completed *tāosingas* should be multiplied by sixty, the number of the *lākli*, or year in the current *tāosinga*, added, and also 568. In inscriptions, as well as in the Ahom *buranjis*, the name of the *lākli* alone is given, and not the serial number of the *tāosinga*, but it is universally reckoned that Sukāphā entered Assam in the first year of the twelfth *tāosinga*, and it is easy to keep a tally of the *tāosingas* from that time on, as numerous events occurring in each *tāosinga* are mentioned in all the *Buranjis*. Thus Supāṭphā's coins are dated in *lākli rāisān*. This is equivalent to the 33rd year, and as it must be the nineteenth *tāosinga*, the date will be 18 × 60 + 33 + 568 = 1681 A.D. This, according to the *Buranjis* is the year of Supāṭphā's accession to the throne.