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

least eighteen years later. The explanation, however, is perhaps to be found in the sup-
position that the inscription was prepared under the personal direction of a pilgrim from
Gujarât, who had brought a Gujarât almanac with him.
On the whole, be the explanation what it may, there seems no doubt that the proper
result is Monday, the 19th February, A.D. 1246. This, however, does not support
the running difference of exactly two hundred and forty-two years between current
Gupta-Valabhî and current Śaka years; nor, as the given date belongs to a bright fort-
night, does it prove anything as to the northern or southern nature of the Gupta-Valabhî
year. If it is taken as the result for a date belonging to a year the scheme of which was
identical with the scheme of the Śaka year, northern or southern,—i.e. as the result for
a date in a year which commenced with the Chaitra śukla 1 belonging to Śaka-Saṁvat
1168 current,—it requires a running difference of two hundred and forty-one years only.
While, if it is taken as the result for a date belonging to a year the scheme of which
was identical with the scheme of the southern Vikrama years,—i.e. as the result, obtained
through Śaka-Saṁvat 1167 expired, for a date in a year which, with the southern
Vikrama-Saṁvat 1303 current, commenced with the following Kârttika śukla 1, still
belonging to Śaka-Saṁvat 1168 current, and falling five months before the true com-
mencement of Gupta-Valabhî-Saṁvat 927,—then it requires a running difference lying
between two hundred and forty-one and two hundred and forty-two. As in the case of the
Kaira grant of Dharasêna IV. of the year 330, which has been referred to at page 72 above
and is now to be explained in detail, the latter is the way in which I apply the result.
And it gives, therefore, the southern Vikrama-Saṁvat 1303 current (A.D. 1245-46), as the
nominal equivalent of the given current Valabhî year. But I have to point out distinctly
that the date is not a satisfactory one, since an important correction of some kind or
another has to be made, in order to interpret it intelligibly at all; and that in no way
does it give a conclusive result, like that of the other Verâwal inscription, of Valabhî-
Saṁvat 945.
The Kaira Grant of the year 330.
The preceding is the last instance, as yet obtained, of the mention of a week-day in a
record dated in the Gupta-Valabhî era. There are, however, three inscriptions, containing
other interesting details for computation, which will now be noticed, before dealing with the
question of the Twelve-year Cycle of Jupiter.
The first of them is a Kaira grant of Dharasêna IV. of Valabhî; in which
the date (from Dr. Bühler's published text; Ind. Ant. Vol. XV. p. 339, line 57) runs —
saṁ 300 30 dvi-Mârggaśira śu 2,— "the year 300 (and) 30; the second (month) Mârgaśira;
the bright fortnight; (the lunar day) 2.
This gives us, for calculation, Gupta-Saṁvat 330, current; an intercalation of the
month Mârgaśira or Mârgaśîrsha (November-December), as shewn by the reference