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The plan for the five-year calendar is shown in Table 9.20. |
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There are 1,830 civil days in this yuga. There are 1,830.8965 days in 62 lunar months, so one day may have been added when required to the civil calendar at the end of the yuga, making the last month 30 days, not 29. |
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Up to the time of the Satavahanas (ca. A.D. 100), Indian dynasties employed regnal dating and did not use an era, even though the Indian rulers were in contact with Greek kings who used the Seleucid era as early as 312 B.C. |
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The first indications of the use of an era in Indian dates come from the records of a group of kings known as the Kushana, and are found with date inscriptions from 1 to 98. Work has shown that the ''hundreds" position was omitted in the date notation used by these rulers, allowing reconstruction of dates up to 157 years following the king Kaniska I. The Kaniska era starts in A.D. 78. |
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| Table 9.20 Number of days in months of 5-year Yuga. | | | | Month | | | | | | | Magha | | | | | | | Phalguna | | | | | | | Caitra | | | | | | | Vaisakha | | | | | | | Jyaistha | | | | | | | Asadha | | | | | | | Sravana (adhika) | | | | | | | Sravana | | | | | | | Bhadrapada | | | | | | | Asvina | | | | | | | Kartika | | | | | | | Margasirsa | | | | | | | Pausa | | | | | | | Magha (adhika) | | | | | | | Total days | | | | | |
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