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Alberuni’s India. An Account of the Religion Philosophy Literature Geography Chronology Astronomy Customs Laws and Astrology of India About A.D. 1030
1888
The latter is also the date of the imprisoning of the King Bali for it happened in the first caturyuya of the seventh manrantara. [...] The year 4132 before the gauge-year is the epoch of the kalikdla and the year 3479 before the gauge-year is the epoch of the Paudavakala. [...] (1) To the year 1488 of the era of Sri Harsha (2) To the year 1°88 of the era of Vikramaditya (3) To the year 953 of the Sakakala (4) To the year 712 of the Valabha era which is identical with the Guptakala (5) To the year 366 of the era of the canon Khandkhddyaka (6) To the year 526 of the era of the canon Pailesiddhantikel by Varahamihira (7) To the year 132 of the era of the canon K [...] The author of the Kashmirian calendar maintains that the latter year corresponds to the sixth year of a new centennium and this indeed is the usage of the people of Kashmir. [...] Thus we get as the sum of the days of the solar months 172 800 ; as the sum of the days of the lunar months 178 111 : and as the sum of the days of the adkimcisa months 5311.
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