BOOK OF INDIAN ERAS: WITH TABLES FOR CALCULATING INDIAN DATES

About the Book:-Most of the tables in this book were prepared for the author’s own use so far back as 1859. He had long felt the want of some handy and ready means of calculating Indian dates, as the process described in Warren’s Kala Sankalita and Prinsep’s Useful Tables is both cumbrous and trouble- some. It struck him that, by substituting decimal parts of clays for the Hindu gharis, palas/and vipalas, and by lessening the number of items to be taken out from the tables, the process would be made much more easy. The road in both is the same, but he believes that he has made it both shorter and smoother. The best test, however, of the advantage of his process would be to compare it with one of Warren’s own examples for finding the initial day of both the Solar and Luni-Solar Calendars for the year of Kali-Yuga 4923 complete = A.D. 1822. The present work differs from others on the same subject, not only in the greater completeness as to the number of eras treated of, but also in the greater handiness and simplicity of its Tables for calculation. He believes, therefore, that this ‘ Book of Indian Eras” will help to supply a want, which has long been felt, in its numerous tables for the calculation of any Indian dates by easy and simple processes. About the Author:-Major General Sir Alexander Cunningham KCIE CSI (1814 – 1893) was a British army engineer with the Bengal Engineer Group who later took an interest in the history and archaeology of India. In 1861, he was appointed to the newly created position of archaeological surveyor to the government of India; and he founded and organised what later became the Archaeological Survey of India. He wrote numerous books and monographs and made extensive collections of artefacts. Some of his collections were lost, but most of the gold and silver coins and a fine group of Buddhist sculptures and jewellery were bought by the British Museum in 1894. He was also the father of mathematician Allan Cunningham. The Title ‘BOOK OF I