The Early History of India, from 600 B.C. to the Muhammadan Conquest, including the Invasion of Alexander the Great c32.11

c32.11

I now accept the suggestion made long ago by Professor Kielhorn (*Ind. Ant.*, vol. xix (1890), p. 7) that the legend of the eighty years' reign is due to a misunderstanding, the Nūdīah raid having really taken place in the year 80 of the Lakshmaṇasena era. Dates in that era were usually calculated as expired years, but occasionally as current years. On the supposition that the year was 'expired', the year 80 would be A. D. 1119-20 plus 80 = A. D. 1199-1200 (October to October). If the current year should be understood, the date would be A. D. 1198-9 (November to October). Probably the event took place during the cold season of 1199-1200, that is to say, late in A. D. 1199, early in A. H. 596. We may be confident that it occurred in either A. H. 595 or 596, not in A. H. 590, as I formerly believed.