History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v6.c82.646

v6.c82.646

995b Vide E. I. vol VIII p 261 In E I vol. 28 p 63 there are plates of Arkeśvara-deva dated in *yugābda* 4248 (i. e in Kaliyuga era). corresponding to 6th February 1148 A D. Vide also a paper contributed to 'Annals of Science', vol 8 No 3 (1952) pp 221-228 by Prof Neugebauer and Dr O Schmidt on 'Hindu Astonomy at Newminster in 1428', in which reference is made to an anonymous treatise composed in England at Newminster containing astronomical calculations for the year 1428 and for the latitude of Newminster. That treatise quotes several Arabic authorities, among which is one 'Omer' (or Umar, who died about 815 A D) and the treatise remarks that Alfonso began the year of the Flood on February 16, 3102 years before the Incarnation, a date which is obviously identical with the beginning of the Kaliyuga era (employed by Indian astronomers)