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CHRONOLOGIES AND CALENDARS.
nowadays go back much further, and in diplomas (bi-lingual documents, Latin and English,) two dates are stated, 'The year of our Lord' and 'of Light,' the latter being dated from 4004 B.C. But it must be remembered that (a) the Jewish Free Masons us the Anno Mundi date instead of the A.D.; (b) Moslems, the era of Mohammed; (c) the Hindoo Free Masons, the Samvat and (d) the Chinese Free Masons, the regnal year and lunar month.
70. Yes-degerd, Era of—This term is sometimes found in histories of Hindustan; and is commonly reckoned to run from the year 632 A.D, But it has only local interest when compared with the imperial importance of the principal Hindoo eras.[1]
- ↑ See also sections 145 et seq. infra. And here it may be convenient to say that (among minor eras) the year 1897 harmonises, in some quarters of its currency, with (1) 2022 of the era of Tyre, (2) 1072 of the Collamic era, and (3) 1306 of the Telingaic Fusli epoch.
