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who is not acquainted with the technical application of the number of the year. So, also,
the same expression is used in the almanacs themselves; thus, in the first two almanacs
mentioned above, "Śakê 1808 Vyaya-nâma-saṁvatsarê," on the title-page; and "Śakê
1808 Chaitra-śukla-pakshaḥ," on the top of the page which exhibits the bright fortnight
of the month Chaitra; and, in the Sâyana-Pañchâṅg, "Śâlivâhana-Śakê 1808 Vyaya-
nâma-saṁvatsaraḥ," on the title-page, and elsewhere "amântaḥ Chaitra-śukla-pakshaḥ
Śâlivâhana-Śakê 1808 Vyaya-nâma-saṁvatsaraḥ." In the same way, I find, for the same
period, "Śakê 1808 Vyaya-nâma-saṁvatsarê" on the title-page of an almanac pub-
lished at Pandit Umacharan Muhatmim's Press at Gwâlior; and, for the period
from the 17th March, A.D. 1885, to the 4th April, A.D. 1886, "Śâlibâhana-Śakê 1807,"
on the title-page of the Jôdhpur Chaṇḍû-Pañchâṅg for that year, and "Śrî-Saṁvat
1942 Śakê 1807 Chaitra-śukla-pakshaḥ," in Bapu Deva Shastri's almanac, prepared
at Benares and published at Lakhnau.
Again, in the preliminary passages that introduce the saṁvatsara-phala or '(astrolo-
gical) results for the year,' and other similar matter, Ganpat Krishnaji's and K. L.
Chhatre's almanacs, contain the passage — atha gata-Kaliḥ 4987, śêsha-Kaliḥ 427013;
Svasti; śrîman-nṛipa-Vikramârka-samay-âtîta-saṁvat¹ 1942, Hêmalamba-nâma-saṁvatsarê;
tathâ śrîman-nṛipa-Śâlivâhana-Śakê 1808, Vyaya-nâma-saṁvatsarê; asmin varshê râjâ
chandrah,—"now the expired (portion of the) Kali (age) (is) 4987 (years); (and) the
remainder of the Kali (age) (is) 427013 (years). Hail! In the year 1942 expired from the
time of the glorious king Vikramârka,² (and) in the Hêmalamba saṁvatsara; so also in
the Śaka (year) 1808 of the glorious king Śâlivâhana, (and) in the Vyaya saṁvatsara; in
this year, the king (is) the Moon." And, for the nirayaṇa year, the Sâyana-Pañchâṅg
for Śaka-Saṁvat 1808 has — Kaliyugasya gata-varshâṇi 4987; śrîman-nṛipa-Vikra-
mârka-saṁvat³ 1943 Vilambi-saṁvatsaraḥ; śrîman-nṛipa-Śâlivâhana-Śak-âbdaḥ 1808
Vyaya-nâma-saṁvatsaraḥ; ath=âsmin varshê râjâ chandrah,—"the expired years of the
Kaliyuga (are) 4987; in the year 1943 of the glorious king Vikramârka, (there is) the
saṁvatsara named Vilambin; (and there is) the year 1808 of the Śaka of the glorious
king Śâlivâhana, (and) the saṁvatsara named Vyaya; now, in this year, the king (is)
the Moon." In these passages, these three almanacs again treat the Śaka year,

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¹ i.e. saṁvatsarê, or saṁvatsarêshu.
² It is curious that here the Vikrama year should be distinctly specified as expired, while the Śaka
year is not qualified in the same manner; as if a distinction were being made in the methods of
reckoning the two eras.
³ i.e. saṁvatsarê, or saṁvatsarêshu.—The figures here, and in the Gwâlior almanac, 1943, differ
from those in Ganpat Krishnaji's and K. L. Chhatre's almanacs, 1942, because the latter quote the
southern reckoning, by which each Vikrama year commences with the month Kârttika, seven
lunations later than the same year in the northern reckoning; consequently, at the commencement
of Śaka-Saṁvat 1808 (expired), on the first day of the bright fortnight of Chaitra, Vikrama-Saṁvat
1402 was still running, by the southern reckoning.