4'10 ON ANCIENT MONUMENTS 



blc of eclipses calculated by Pingre *, the solar eclipses, 

 which occurred in 11 72 and 1173, fell on 27th Janu- 

 ary and 23d June, II72, and I2th June, 1173; and 

 the lunar ecHpses in 1 180 and 1 181, were on the 13th 

 February and 7th August 1180, and 22d December, 

 1181. None of these approach to the dates of Mdrga.^ 

 sira or jigrahdyana IO95 and Cdrtica 1103. Unless, 

 then, the era of SdUvdha?m have been counted dif- 

 ferently in the peninsula of Ind'ia^ from the mode in 

 which it is now reckoned, and on which the compa- 

 rison of it with the Ciiristian era is grounded, it seems 

 difficult to account for this disagreement of the dates 

 and eclipses, in any other way, than by impeaching 

 the inscription, the authenticity of which there is not 

 otherwise any reason to question. 



VI. Inscripmi on a Stone found at Kurrah. 



Having learnt from Captain C. Stewart, (a 

 Member of this Society), that an inscription had been 

 remarked by him in the gateway of the Fort oi Kurrah 

 (Khard), I obtained, through the assistance of Major 

 Lennon, then stationed in the vicinity of that place, 

 the stone itself which contains the inscription. It now 

 belongs to the Asiatick Society. 



The inscription is very short ; contains the date 1093 

 Samvat, the name of the prince, as also names of several 

 places ; and is written in a very legible character : )'et 

 all my endeavours to arrive at any explanation of it have 

 been unsuccessful. Whether, it be only a fragment of 



• Published in L'art de verifiarles dates j and inserted in Play- 

 fair's System of Chronology. 



