#Bhaskaravarman

“When an Assamese almanac prints this year's date in the Bhāskarābda era, it is counting from the accession of a seventh-century king of Kāmarūpa — the clearest case in India of a man who became a calendar.”

“A frontier king made his far-eastern kingdom indispensable to the empire of its day — by alliance, by learning, by sheer nerve — and wrote the Northeast into India's classical story in its own documents. Assam still counts its years from him.”