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according to his true place, it becomes necefiary, when they compute the time 
clapfed from the beginning of their era, until that of any given year, to allow for 
the difference between the mean and true places at the former period, and on this 
account they deduct 2d. 3 h. 32' 30'' from the whole number of days. 
(n) This is the common mode of Spelling the name after the Peru an ; accord- 
ing to the Sanikreet orthography, it fkould be V'cckrasnadeetya The place of bis 
birth is faid to be Toumma-naggree , in the north-eafiern part of Mahsa. Prior to 
the era of Bbkmmajlt, the Hindoos .appear to have reckoned by that of JudrJhtcr 
(or Yocdhe-Jbteera ), a king flip po fed to have reigned at Hafiinapoor about the 
commencement of the Kalee-Yoog. Of this era 3044 years are faid to have 
expired when the new reckoning was adopted; but the date is no other than 
that of the Kalee-Yoog itfelf, with the 30431b of which, as is feen by the table, 
the era of Bih\amqjk commenced. The translation of the Benares Pattra makes- 
the year of JudlJhter , 3044, to correfpond with the year 14784 °f the Chriftian era., 
(5) See ("«)., latter part. 
(p) The copper plate difeovered at Mongueer , and translated by Mr. Wilkins 
(Afiatic Refearches, Vol. I. p. 123), is dated in the 33d year of an era fuppofed 
to be that of Bikramajit, who is alluded to in the infeription by an epithet fi uni- 
fying t\\tfoe of Saka* For other ancient dates of this era, fee Afiatic Refearches, 
p. 287. and 380. M. Bailly (Traite de PAftr. Ind. p. exxx.), quoting the 
authority of M. Anq^. du PerPwON, places it 54 infle ad of 36 years before 
Chrift. 1 
{q) Phil. Tranf, Vol. LXXVIII. p. 416. 
(r) Take the two following paflages as inltances.. 44 Bikermajit ruled for fome 
time over the northern parts of the Deccan ; but the Rajahs , headed b ySalbahan r 
having revolted, they gave him battle, and he was flain.” F. Wilford, Afiat. 
Ref. p. 374. 46 Bikarmadjit tint fa conr a Oudjen ; c’efl a. lui que commence Fere 
Indienne. II fut vaincu et tue dans une battaiile par Salbhan roi PataneP Ber- 
noulli (P. Tieffentkaler), Vol. I. p. 357. The confufion arifmg from this 
anachronifm is increafed by an ambiguity of names ; for that of Saha or Sak, which 
belonged to the predeceflfor of Bikramajit, is likewife a name by which Salaban is 
commonly known, and from which his era is called the Sak-abda . 
For the relative date of the era of Bikramajit, I have the authority of Mr.. 
Wilkins (Afiat. Ref. Vol. I. p. 130.), who makes 1837 correfpond with 4882 
of the Kalee-Yoog, and with 1703 of Salaban. Thefe are corroborated in a 
manner that puts their accuracy out of difpute. 
(i) The manner of dating appears thus in a grant of land, of which a tran- 
slation is given in the Afiatic Refearches, Vol. I. p. 363. “ On the fifteenth of 
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