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Among these four dates, two comprise only years. The two other dates contain the month, the fortnight and the lunar day also. But one of them gives no week-day, while the other also gives the weekday and the Nakstra." On referring this date to the Tables, "2 it is found that the lunar day falls on the given week-day according to the Kärttikādi system and not the Caitrādi system, of years. As the lunar day belongs to the bright fortnight, the date does not help us to determine whether the month was Pūrņimānta or Amānta. Though the work was published in Bhillamāla, the use of the Kārttikādi system of years implies its close association with Gujarat where the system was in common use in the Kalacuri and Valabhi era during the Maitraka period.
The adoption of the Vikrama Era in these records seems to be rather uncommon among the dates of this period. Probably its use was adopted from the adjoining region of Rajasthan which had close bearing, political as well as cultural, on Gujarat during the post-Maitraka period.
The traditional accounts of the Cāvadā dynasty contain some dates which fall within this period. They range frorn the V.E. 861 to 998.43 Many of the dates 41. Tyeșthe Sitapañcamyam Punarvasu Gurudine' Upamitibhàvapra
påñcākathā of Siddharşi (JSȘI., p. 182, f. n. 184) 42. Pillai IC, Table X 43. Vide the table given in Råmlal Cunilal Modi Lekhasumgraha, Part I, p. 43.
The Vicāraśreni uniformly dates all the events 19 years later, the total period ranging from 821 to 1017. But the Sambhar Inscription of Siddharāja Jayasimha (1 A., Vol. LVII, p. 234) has firmly establised that Mülarāja founded his dynasty in V.E.998. This year also marks the end of the Cāvadā dynasty.
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