r 84 Mr. Marsden, &c. 
(v) On reference to the Ayccn Akbery , or Inftitutes of the emperor Aklar, T 
find mention made (Vol, I. p. 344.) of an era eftablifhed by him, being that of 
the commencement of his reign, in the year of Chrifl 1556. Although nothing 
is faid of the conformity of its date with the current year of the Hejera , yet it is 
probable that this was the origin of what has fmce been called the Bengal era. 
In the province of Bchar , and fome other parts of the empire, a year was 
eflabliflied with a view to the revenue folely, called the FuJfuJlee year. It appears 
to begin, and to take its date, from the month of September preceding the 
commencement of the common Bengal year, and therefore 1198 fliould begin in 
September 1790. Mention is made (in the Alph. Grandonico-Malabaricum, 
Romse, 1772) of an era employed in the fouthern extremity of the peninfula, of 
which 965 fliould correfpond with the year of Chrifl 179°* 
(w) Mem. Acad, des Sciences, Tom. VIII. p. 218. Traite de l’Aflronomie 
Ind. p. 18. and 21. 
(#) This agrees with the Hindoo year given in the Soorya Seedhanta, and differs 
6 y/ from that by M. le Gentil. Thefe final 1 differences arife probably from the 
forms of calculation, and are not fundamental. 
(y) The cycle of the Chinefe and Tartars comprehends 60 years, expreffed by 
an artificial arrangement of 10 words or particles, prefixed to the names of 12 
animals, in fuch a manner' that 6 repetitions of the former coincide with 5 
repetitions of the latter, and bring them to the fame relative fituation at the 
recommencement of the cycle. 
(%) Loubere, Relation of Siam, Eng. tranf. 1693, p. 169. et 202* Journal 
du Voyage de Siam, par M. L. D. G., Par. 1687, p. 286. Hiftoire Nat. et 
Pol. du Royaume de Siam, par N. Gervaife, Par, 1688, p. 154^ 155. 
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