help with dates, please

[Anna A. Slaczka]

Yes, these are bhUtasaMkhyAs.
I would suggest searching in the Monier-Williams first. Many bhUtasaMkhyAs are listed there. Then look at glossaries of editions of some zilpazAstras and Agamas where the bhUtasaMkhyAs occur very frequently. See for example the Mayamata edition by Dagens and the publications of the French Institute of Indology in Pondicherry.

Best,

Anna Slaczka
Rijksmuseum
Amsterdam
The Netherlands

--- On Fri, 10/8/10, James Hartzell <james.hartzell at GMAIL.COM> wrote:

> From: James Hartzell <james.hartzell at GMAIL.COM>
> Subject: Re: [INDOLOGY] help with dates, please
> To: INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk
> Date: Friday, October 8, 2010, 8:01 AM
> I meant to add, the official name of
> this system, as far as I know, is the bhUta-saMkhyA system.
> 
> 
> On Oct 8, 2010, at 7:18 AM, McComas Taylor wrote:
> 
> > Dear Colleague,
> > 
> > An excellent student of Sanskrit, Mr Aung Than of
> Sydney, has asked for some help with dates:
> > 
> > "I would like to ask you some questions if you can
> help me. Some time we can find some writing for year or date
> as below, where can I find the information about the numbers
> used in the word form.
> > sindhu bindu veda candra shAka
> > bAna bAna veda candra shAka
> > mahi sindhu bhuta indu shAka
> > shAka = shakabdA (shAka era)
> > I could guess sindhu (sapta sindhu) = 7, bindu (dot) =
> 0, veda (catur veda) = 4, bhuta (panca bhuta) = 5,
> > indu = candra = ?
> > bAna = ?
> > mahi = ?"
> > 
> > Is there some kind person out there who can help out?
> > 
> > Yours
> > 
> > McComas
> > 
> > 
> > 
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