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The '''Kalachuri Era''' or the ''Chedi''<ref>{{Cite book|last1=Sewell|first1=Robert|title=The Indian Calendar, with Tables for the Conversion of Hindu and Muhammadan Into A.D. Dates, and Vice Versa|last2=Dikshit|first2=S. B.|publisher=Motilal Banarsidass Publishe|year=1996|isbn=978-81-208-1207-9|location=Delhi|pages=42}}</ref> era was a [[Hindu]] system of year numbering started by the [[Abhira dynasty|Abhira King]] [[Ishwarsena|Isvarasena]],<ref name=chattopadhyaya>{{cite book |title=Some Early dynasties of South India |last=Chattopadhyaya |first=Sudhakar |year=1974 |publisher=Motilal Banarsidass |isbn=81-208-2941-7 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=78I5lDHU2jQC&q=%22Kalacuri+Era%22+-wikipedia&pg=PA100 |page=100}}</ref> in which the year numbering started at some time from 248-250 [[Common Era|CE]].<ref name=chattopadhyaya/><ref name=britannica>{{cite book |title=The New Encyclopædia Britannica |year=1974 |publisher=Encyclopædia Britannica |isbn=0-85229-290-2 |pages=v. 4 p. 574 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Eb0qAAAAMAAJ&q=%22Kalacuri+Era%22+-wikipedia}}</ref>

== Origin ==
The German scholar [[Lorenz Franz Kielhorn|F. Kielhorn]] suggested that the system began in September 248, the year that began with the month of [[Ashvin|Asvina]].<ref>{{Cite book|last=Morgan|first=E. Delmar|title=Transactions of the Ninth Oriental Congress of Orientalists, Vol. I|date=1893|year=1893|pages=429|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|title=Indian Antiquary, Volume XIX|publisher=Kegan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co.|year=1890|location=Bombay|pages=228|language=en}}</ref> It was first used in [[Gujarat]] and [[Maharashtra]] (particularly Northern Maharashtra<ref>{{Cite book|last=Agnihotri|first=V.K.|title=Indian History, Twenty-Sixth Edition|publisher=Allied Publishers|year=2010|isbn=978-81-8424-568-4|location=New Delhi|pages=xviii}}</ref>), from where it spread to [[Madhya Pradesh]] and [[Uttar Pradesh]] where it was used until the 13th century CE.<ref name="britannica" /> Some sources cite an Early Kalachuri era founded in Mahismati through its ruler Maharaja Subandhu who could be an ancestor to the Kalachuris.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Spink|first=Walter|title=Ajanta: History and Development, Volume 7 Bagh, Dandin, Cells and Cell Doorways|publisher=BRILL|year=2017|isbn=978-90-04-31968-4|location=Leiden|pages=12}}</ref>

== See also ==
*[[abhira]]

==References==
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Kalachuri Era - Revision history

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