गुप्त अभिलेख संग्रह (जे. एफ. फ्लीट - गुप्त सम्राटों एवं परवर्ती नरेशों के ऐतिहासिक पाषाण व ताम्रलेख)

A.D. 379; or, by the English calendar, on Friday, the 13th September. His longitude then
was 162° 0'. By all three systems, he was then in Hasta; and the saṁvatsara which
then began, must have been named Mahā-Phālguna; and it was a repeated saṁvatsara
by the two systems of unequal spaces, but an ordinary saṁvatsara by the system of equal
spaces.
Again, in Gupta-Saṁvat 199 + A.D. 190-91 = A.D. 389-90 = Śaka-Saṁvat 312 cur-
rent, in which year the English equivalent of the given date would be Wednesday, the 10th
October, A.D. 389, Jupiter's rising, next before the given date, took place on Śrāvaṇa
śukla 6 of the same year, Śaka-Saṁvat 312, corresponding to Sunday, the 15th July,
A.D. 389; or, by the English calendar, on Monday, the 16th July. His longitude then
was 104° 51'. By all three systems, he was then in Pushya; and the saṁvatsara which
then began, must have been named Mahā-Pausha. Jupiter's next following rising took
place on Āśvina krishṇa 4 of Śaka-Saṁvat 313, corresponding to Friday, the 16th August,
A.D. 390; or, by the English calendar, on Saturday, the 17th August. His longitude
then was 135° 57'. By all three systems, he was then in Pūrvā-Phalgunī; and the
saṁvatsara which then began, must have been named Mahā-Phālguna; the intervening
Mahā-Māgha saṁvatsara being omitted.
By the mean-sign system, in Gupta-Saṁvat 188 + A.D. 190-91 = A.D. 378-79
= Śaka-Saṁvat 301 current, the Mahā-Māgha saṁvatsara commenced on Āshāḍha
krishṇa 10, corresponding to Wednesday, the 6th June, A.D. 378; and it was current
through the whole month of Kārttika in the same year; being followed by Mahā-
Phālguna on Āshāḍha śukla 1 of Śaka-Saṁvat 302, corresponding to Sunday, the 2nd
June, A.D. 379. Again, in Gupta-Saṁvat 200 + A.D. 190-91 = A.D. 390-91 = Śaka-
Saṁvat 313 current, the Mahā-Māgha saṁvatsara commenced on Jyeshṭha krishṇa 2,
corresponding to Wednesday, the 17tb April, A.D. 390; and it was current through the
whole month of Kārttika in the same year; being followed by Mahā-Phālguna on Jyesh-
ṭha krishṇa 8 of Śaka-Saṁvat 314, corresponding to Sunday, the 13th April, A.D. 391.
And thus, with this epoch also, and by this system, the Mahā-Māgha saṁvatsara
was current on the given date in Gupta-Saṁvat 188 and 200. But here, again, the
results do not in themselves prove anything definite as to the proposed epoch; for the
reason that the current Gupta year itself is not mentioned in the record; and, by taking
different Gupta years, the same results would be obtained with a different epoch.
Summary of Results.
I have now examined all the dates, at present known, referable to the Gupta-Valabhī
era, that furnish details for computation. And it only remains to sum up the results
established by the preceding inquiries.
Albêrûnî tells us that there was an era, known both as the Gupta era and the
Valabhî era, the years of which were to be converted into years of the Śaka era by