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JULY, 1895.] ON THE DATES OF THE SAKA ERA IN INSCRIPTIONS.
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ON THE DATES OF THE SAKA ERA IN INSCRIPTIONS. BY PROFESSOR F. KIELHORN, C.I.E., GÖTTINGEN,
(Continued from p. 17.) T NOW give a general list of Saka datesl which is similar to the list of Vikrama dates, 1 published in Vol. XX. of this Journal. In addition to the 200 dates, the full details of which together with the calculated results have been already given, this list contains the dates which do not admit of verification, those the exact wording of which appeared to be doubtful, and a number of irregular dates not treated of before; but it also give some regular dates which have only lately come to my knowledge. Throughout, the year of the date has been marked with an asterisk, whenever it can be combined with the Jovian year, mentioned along with it, only as a current year. And dates the calculation of which has yielded no satisfactory result, and which have not been included in the preceding list, are distinguished here by a cross, added to the last word of the date. - The list will be found to contain all the Saka dates published in this Journal, the Epigraphia Indica, Dr. Fleet's Pali, Nanskrit and Old-Kanarese Inscriptions, Dr. Hultzsch's South Indian Inscriptions, and Mr. Rico's various publications (excepting the recently pablished Epigraphia Karnataka), and most of (if not all) those in the Journals of the Asiatic Societies, etc.; but from the Inscriptions Sunscrites de Campá et du Cambodge only the earliest dates, up to Saka-samvat 598, are given here.
General Chronological List of Saka Dates. 1. - P. 10, No. 166.2 - 8. 169, Prabhava, Phålgun-â mâvâsya, Bhrigu-våre. Tanjore spurious copper-plates of the Western Gauga Arivarman (Harivarman).
2.-P. 10, No. 167. - 8. 261, Vilambin, Kårttika-sudi 13, Sôma-vårê. Mudyanûr spurious copper-plates of the Bana Malladova-Nandivarman..
3.-P. 11, No. 168.-8. 261, Vibhava, Pausha-vadi 14, Sôma-vara, uttarayanasamkranti. Spurious date in the Kalbhavi Jaina inscription.
4.-S. 272 ). - Ante, Vol. VII. p. 173; Mysore Inscr. No. 156, p. 293. Harihar spurious copper-plates of a son of the Western Ganga Vishnugopa :
(L. 9).- Saga nayana gi neyâ] Sadharana-sammachhchharidaPbalguna ma amavase Adivaradandu.t
5.-8. 310. – Ante, Vol. IX. p. 294. Pimpaļoêr spurious copper-plates of the Chalukya Satyabraya (Pulikekin I. or II.) :
(L. 1). — Sakansipa-kal-atita-samvatsara-sateshu tri(tri)shu das-ôttarêshv=asya[m] samvatsara-masa-paksha-divasa-fûrv vâyân-tithau.
6.-P. 9, No. 163.-S. 388, Tarana, Phâlgun-âmâvâsyà, Bșiha-våra. Bangalore spurious copper-plates of Vira-Nonamba.
7.-P. 11, No. 169. -- 388, Magha-sudi 5, Sôma-våra. Merkara spurious copper-plate of the Western Gaiga Avinita-Kongani,
I mean by this dates which distinctly refer themselves to the Saka era. The only exception to this is the date No. 7, of the year 388, from a spurious record. - The Inscriptions Sanscrites du Cambolge have several Saka dates which neither contain a reference to the era employed nor even a word for year.' Compare.y. p. 87, v. 21, Kha-nata-muritibhir ; p. 89, v. 29, viyad-vil isht-adhikritadhiroyale; p. 88, C. v. 2, lvi-nang-martilhir ; p. 101, v. 10, véda-dvi-vila-rd jyabhak ; p. 106, v. 2, véda-di-naga-rujyabhik; eto.
* The roferencos by page and number, here and in a similar manner under other dates, are to Vol. XXIII. pp. 113-134, and this volumo, pp. 1-17.
3 By the mean-sign systom Sadharana ended on the 7th September, A. D. 356, in E. 278 cxpired; and by the southern luni-volar systom Sadharana would be S. 272 expired.
