History of Mediaeval Hindu India (being a History of India from 600 to 1200 A.D.) v2.c28.43

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tion of Nanda by 1015 years. ( यावतपरीक्षितो जन्म यावनन्दाभिषेचनम् । एतद्वर्षसहस्रं तु ज्ञेयं पञ्चदशोत्तरम् ). It is probably this verse from the Bhāgavata which Chand has in his mind when he introduces Nanda in the first verse and Dharmasuta or Yudhishthira in the second. But it is still difficult to explain how Chand places 1115 years between Vikrama and Dharmasuta and in what manner he forms his third Śaka of Prithvīrāja. It seems that लिख्यो विप्र गुन गुस means that the Brahmin poet has written this in a riddle after making calculations and that there is no reference here to Brahmagupta the astronomer.