Chronological Tables For Southern India From The Sixth Century A.D. (PB)

About the book:-These tables are published for those at work with inscriptions and historical documents in Southern India to understand the dates mentioned in stone. Dates from the 6th century are given here in tables that tell the corresponding date in the Salivahana Saka era, Kaliyuga era, the Kollam era, the Christian era as well as the Hijri dates.TheseTables are published in order to enable those at work on the Inscriptions of Southern India readily to ascertain the date of any document, or record on stone. The Salivahana Saka era being the one most commonly used, it is placed in the first column. The Kaliyuga era is very commonly nsertedin addition to the first, especially in the later inscriptions. The Kolla'm era of Quilon is only used in the Southern Tamil country and in Travaneore. The name of the cyclic year occurs in almost all the inscriptions of Southern India since the tenth century.The year of the Hijra is only used in Muham¬madan inscriptions. Burnell’s “South Indian Palaeography ”(pp. 70—80) contains some very useful, notes on the eras in use in the Madras Presidency. Prinsep’s “Indian Chronological Tables,” inThomas’s edition of the former’s “Indian Antiquities ” (Vol. II, pp. 131—214), constitute the mostcritically accurate information yet published on the subject.