[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [The Greeks in Bactria and India](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938) › c9.s2.188 # The Greeks in Bactria and India c9.s2.188 The Greeks in Bactria and India c9.s2.188 - **Language:** English ### [c9.s2.188](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c9.s2.188) ¹ The two forms have been clearly explained by F. K. Ginzel, \*Handbuch der mathematischen und technischen Chronologie\* I, 1906, p. 137; see also W. Kubitschek, \*Grundriss der antiken Zeitrechnung\* 1928 p. 70 (in Müller’s \*Handbuch\*), and especially W. Kolbe, \*Beiträge zur syrischen und jüdischen Geschichte\* 1926 pp. 1 sqq., who argued that the Babylonian form was the original one; I gather from \*Rev.\* E. G. XLVIII, 1935, p. 598 that E. Bikermann in his forthcoming \*Études sur l’administration séleucide\* will maintain that there was only one calendar, the official Macedonian one beginning in autumn, though Orientals might begin with 1 Nisan. Naturally the questions involved cannot be discussed here. - [Previous: c9.s2.187](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c9.s2.187) - [Next: c9.s2.189](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c9.s2.189) - [Up: c9.s2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c9.s2) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c9.s2.188](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tarn-1938.c9.s2.188) · Pramāṇa