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M. Cbakravarti —"Eastern Garjga kings of Orissa. [No. 2. 
sticking to a round figure, or to calculating the regnal year from tlie 
abhiseka year instead of the accession year. 
iii. But the principal difference is in Nos. 4 to 10, rising in some 
cases to 6 years. They can be explained, if the regnal years of the cop¬ 
perplates are taken as arjka years, and not as ordinary years. I am the 
more inclined to take this view, as I find in the Kendupatna copperplates 
Bhanu Deva (No. 9) is distinctly credited with a rule of eighteen aykas 
[Journ. As. Soc. Beng., Vol. LXV (1896), p. 252 ; plate Y. obverse, line 
20]. Taken as arjka years, the copperplate figures come to these : 25 
(No. 4) = 21; 10 (No. 5) =8 ; 17 (No. 6) =14; 84 (No. 7) = 28; 33 (Nos. 8 
and 10) =27 ; 18 (No. 9) = 15. Thus, except in No. 5, all others agree 
with the deduced years ; and in No. 5, ten may be a mistake for eleven 
arjka. 
The peculiarities of the arjka regnal years are not well-known. So 
for the convenience of readers they are 
The peculiarities 
the aijka years. 
of 
noted here. The chief special characteristics 
are 
(1) 1, and all figures ending in 0 and 6 (except 10) should be 
i omitted. 
(2) The last arjka year of one king and the first arjka year of the 
succeeding king (i.e., 2) fall in the same year. 
(3) The year begins on the day of Suniya , simha (Bhadrapada) 
fhkla dvada^. 
With these general remarks I now proceed to examine the details 
of each king. All information about dates have been thrown into a 
tabular form ; and other details which are likely to throw light on the 
subject have been given below the tables in brief. 
The inscriptional dates fall under three classes. A large number, 
i T . having weekdays, &c., could be verified 
nscrip ions. with Professor Jacobi’s tables; another, 
group could not be verified, though weekdays, &c., have been given 
either on account of mistakes or of my own failure; another group 
cannot be verified at all for want of weekdays, &c. They have been 
noted respectively in the remark column as “ verified, ” “ irregular, ” 
or “ unverifiable.” 
The inscriptions are either in Sanskrit, Telugu, or Oriya language, 
and have been denoted in the number column as such by letters S., T., 
and O. 
When an era year is given, it is always faka. Its numeral numbers 
are generally in figures, occasionally in 
Their general details. symbolical words, often in both. The f aka 
% figures are generally in Telugu inscriptions 
