Indian Epigraphical Glossary c6.5359

c6.5359

samvatsara (CII 3; 4; IA 17), ‘a year’; ‘an era’, the earlier years of the Indian eras being quoted by this term (or by its abbreviations sam, samvat, etc.), without any dynastic or other appellation just as in the case of the year of a regnal reckoning.