Mr, Marsden on the 
Having thus briefly touched upon fuch points of their agro- 
nomy as are immediately connected with the meafurement of 
time, I proceed to the companion of their eras, which I 
fliall firft bring into one general view, and afterwards confider 
feparately. 
Table exhibiting the correfpondence of the feveral Hindoo eras 
with each other, and with the Julian period and Chriftian era. 
Julian 
period. 
Kalee 
Toog . 
Era of 
Bikra- 
majit. 
Chrifti- 
an era. 
Era of 
•Salaban 
Bengal 
era. 
Cycle 
of 60 
years. 
Kalce Toog , or grand 
era , • » • 
1612 
O 
*3 
Era of Bikramajit • 
4657 
3°45 
O 
58 
V 
Chriftian era 
47 r 3 
3101 
O 
54 
Era of Salaban 
479 i 
-309 
134 
78 
0 
1 1 
Prefent- cycle of 60 
years .... 
646O 
4848 
1803 
1 747 
1669 
”54 
1 
Year 1790 of J. C. 
« 
(from April) 
6 S °3 
4891 
1846 
179° 
1712 
11 97 
44 
For better underftanding the above table, it is neceflary to 
remark, that when the Hindoos quote the year of an era, they 
do it by the number of the elapfed or complete year ; whereas, 
the common European mode is to date by the number of the 
current or incomplete year; therefore what we fhould term 
the firft year of an era, is with them the year zero, and their 
year one that which follows ; excepting in the cycle of fixty, 
of which the year one immediately fucceeds the laft complete 
year of the former cycle. The- difference in years between 
any two eras is expreffed by the number appearing at the inter- 
fe£tiou of the horizontal and perpendicular lines, to which the 
names 
