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THE CHRONOLOGICAL SYSTEMS OF GUJARAT dates gathered from these records range from V. S. 1005 (A.C. 949) to V.S. 1360 (A.C. 1304). They consist of the year, the month, the fortnight, the lunar day and the week-day in most of the cases. A few dates also contain references to eclipses and intercalations. The dates given in the literary records sometimes also include nakṣatras and yogas. Some dates of the Vikrama Era also mention the name of the Samvatsara along with the number of the year.
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The epoch and origin of the Vikrama Era are already discussed in Chapter V.
As regards the scheme of years and months, the material bearing on it was very meagre in the case of of the Maitraka and the post-Maitraka periods, while the dates of the Solanki period abound in data pertaining to it. However, the findings from the different data prove to be amazingly divergent.
It would, therefore, be necessary to classify the key-dates territorially and chronologically.
First are taken the key-dates obtained from the Sarasvata Mandala, which formed the home province of the Caulukya kingdom. Next is taken the Aṣṭādaśasata Mandala, excluding the region of Mt. Abu and
6. According to the identification of the known places in its different Pathakas (vide H. D. Sankalia, Studies in the Historical and Cultural Geography and Ethnography of Gujarat, p. 42.), the Sarasvata Mandala seems to have covered almost the whole of the Mahesana District, the south-east part of the Banaskantha District and the north-east part of the Ahmedabad District in modern terms.
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