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

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the Bombay Educational Department. It was only at the end of December, 1886, that I
made his acquaintance. But, since then, he has been most assiduous in making all the
astronomical calculations, which were suggested by me to him as each new point deve-
loped itself in the special inquiries that, through his assistance, became possible. Two
of his papers will be given in full in Appendices II. and III.; and the first of them will be
found to explain thoroughly the process by which, with the late Professor Kero Lakshman
Chhatre's Tables, anyone may now be able to calculate correctly the week-day, and the
corresponding English date, for any given Hindu tithi or lunar day. The second point to
which he has given his attention, is the elucidation of the system of the Twelve-Year
Cycle of Jupiter, the years of which form so important a part in some of the records of the
Early Gupta period. I find it impossible to over-estimate the work which he has done
for me during the short period of our acquaintance. His assistance has been simply
invaluable. Without it, I must have left all these subsidiary points for future deter-
mination; and must, of course, have left the all-important subject of the epoch of the
Gupta era still open, within the limits of one year before and after the true date, to doubt
and argument. With it, I am now able to prove everything that I have sought to establish,
from the time when I first became aware of the full purport of the Mandasôr inscription
that gives the date of Kumâragupta and Bandhuvarman; and to present my case, as will
be seen, in a thoroughly complete and satisfactory form.
J. F. FLEET.