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Ill. The date of Agokacalla is also in full accord with 
the above view if we correctly interpret the data we possess 
about him. Now one ofhis inscriptions is dated in the year 
1813 of the Nirvana era. The late Dr. Fleet has shown that 
although different views were current about the date of the 
Nirvana in Ceylon, all these were igs pes towards the 
end of the twelfth century A.D. a little earlier, by the 
assumption that the event was to te diced at 544-543 B.C.! 
Mr. Taw Sein Ko says that this era was known to the Burmese 
long before the 12th century A.D.* About the particular 
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reckoning of B.C. 544, and taking Karttika as the Piurni- 
manta month, ending with the full moon, which is what we 
agai expect, I find that se — details are correct for 
Wednesday, 1 October, A.D. 
With this date of Backseat in view, the meaning of the 
dated portions of his other two inscriptions becomes self- 
evident. These are : (i) Lakhv anasenasy =atita-rajye sam 51. 
(ii) ksmar deva-padanam=atita-rajye sam 74 Vai- 
sakha vadi 12 Gurau. 
Now if there are reasons to believe that Asokacalla flour- 
ished about 1270 A.D., naturally the dates in the above two 
inscriptions would be taken as counted from lie cessation of 
the reign of Laksmanasena, that event itself being placed to- 
wards the end of the twelfth century A.D. Taking Blochman’s 
date for this event, the second inscription, which alone org 
ot verification, regularly corresponds to 1271 A.D., May 7, 
Thursday. (With dates proposed by Cunningham and Raverty 
it would correspond respectively to 1267 A.D., April 21 
Thursday, and 1268 A.D., May 10 Thursday 5). 
o reasonable objections can be urged against this view. 
On the analogy of such expressions as Vijaya-rajye sam 4 
which means ‘4 years having elapsed (or 4th year being 
current ), counted from the commencement of ee 
paladeva. There can be no reasonable doubt that these 
Se pacesious easily lend themselves to the interpretation that 
the reckoning was made from the end of a king’s reign or the 
destruction of a oe 
ES RAS., a p. 323 ff. Also cf. J.R.A.S. 1910, pp. 474 ff, 857 ff; 
J-R.A.S. 1911, p. 2 6 ff. 2 J.R.A.S, 1911, p. 212. 
3 According to ae calculations of Swamikannu Pillai with which 
Prof. D. R. Bhandarkar was kind enough to oxpiols me 
