Martin and Michio: Thanks for your ideas. Let me give you the text itself, because there appears to be some confusion: zriisaMvat 1560 varZe caitramaase sukla [broken ms] nakSatre paurNamaayaaM tithau zanivaare . So there is no indication about what Samvat this is; but given that this is a Maharastrian ms. it is likely that it is Vikrama. Hope this helps. Patrick