help with dates, please

[Dipak Bhattacharya]

<indu = candra = ?
bAna = ?
mahi = ?">
In case someone has aleady provided the answer off the list please ignore the following.
indu=candra=1
bANa =5
mahi= 1
Best
DB
 
 
--- On Fri, 8/10/10, McComas Taylor <mccomas.taylor at ANU.EDU.AU> wrote:


From: McComas Taylor <mccomas.taylor at ANU.EDU.AU>
Subject: [INDOLOGY] help with dates, please
To: INDOLOGY at liverpool.ac.uk
Date: Friday, 8 October, 2010, 5:18 AM


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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