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THE CHRONOLOGICAL SYSTEMS OF GUJARAT
There is a mention of a lunar eclipse in Magodi Copper-plates of Karkarāja Suvarṇavarşa, dated Saka 736, Mahāvaišākha parvan. The date well fits in according to the Caitrādi system and corresponds to 8 April, A.C. 814.
There is a mention of Vyaya Samvatsara in the Cincani plates of Rāştrakūta king Indra III, dated Śaka 848, Vaišākha, śu.di: 3, Soma. The Samvatsara Vyaya well fits in with the southern cycle. The given date corresponds to Monday, 17 April, A.C. 926 according to the Caitrādi years. The other two dates do not admit . of verification because of insufficient data.
The key-dates of the recently discovered Caulukya records dated in Vikrama Era8 are classified territorially and chronologically on the same lines as followed in chapter VII above.
The individual key-dates may be given and exam. ined as follows :
SĀRASVATA MANDALA
· I. Regular Dates
A. Dates in Bright Fortnights 1. Date in the months Kārttika to Phālguna
Date in expired years Copper-plate inscription
8. Hijrī dates are met with in several Arabic and Persian inscriptions
dated upto 1304 A.D. (Vide Z. A. Desai, Gujarat lihās Sandarbh Sūci, Part VI, nos. 1-27). They gen:rally follow the usual system of years and mooihs used in the Hijrī era.
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