Vo. i, me 3.| Pavana-ditam or Wind-Messenger. 47 
[N. 8.] 
according to some modern calculations it began in A.D. 1106. But 
Karttika sudi one of the expired ¢aka year 1041=7th Outs bar 
A.D. 1119.! I think this is a right conclusion, particularly as 
it us 7p oigieee by a statement in the Akbarnéma*® and other 
evidences 
The era is generally taken to begin from the first year of 
The era takento lLaksmanasena’s reign which, according to 
pee from his first an anecdote in the Tabakat-i i-Nasiri,? began 
yea. eis his birth. But this view is open to 
Objections. serious objections. Firstly, it involves the 
assumption of a rule of more qin n eighty years—a fact unprecedented 
in Indian pets and I suppose in the recorded history of the world 
‘too, even if the rule began from his birth. Mo oreover, in the Adbhuta- 
before his own Flaroiess eee a ee aa ee must have been of 
the Dana-sagara is said to have been composed by Vallalasena in 
Caka year Cagi-nava-daga (1091); while the Adhbuta-sagara is 
said to have been begun by Ballalasena in the Caka year Kha- 
nava- kh-end- oatde (1090). These show that Fe aa saaplageee was 
have been kin ng before A. D. 1168-69, Thirdly, it it is curious to 
find that not a single date in the eeiecmrie: era has yet been, 
found earlier than 51, ¢e., earlier than A.D. 1170-1.° 
tee ording of The two known inscriptions of this era 
tions mince are peculiarly worded, and run as follows :— 
(1) Crimal-Laksmansenasy-dtita-rajye sam 51 Bhadra-dine 29.7 
i Ind. Ant., XIX (1890), p. 6.; - Ind. I, p. 306, no’ 
2 “ For e example, ie sane as ra dates yo the a of the e rule 
of Lachman Sen, fro ar whaeh Ban till eu 465 years have caps, ae 
nama, Beveridge’s Cand vol. Il, pp. 21-2. 465 La. Sa.=1506 Caka= 
Sathvat. 
3 Major Raverty’s Translation, p 
+ Notices of Bombay MSS., 1897, pe EVV 
5 Catalogue of In dia Office MSS., p. 545; and Bom. MSS., 1897, 
Vi. 
6 Jour. Bom. Br. R.A.S., XVI, p. 358. 
7 Jour, Bom. Br. R.AS., ’ XVI, p. 358. 
