The Journal of the Siam Society Vol. LXIV, Part 1-2, 1976 - Khamkoo

354 REVIEW AHTICLE
Manit commented on some of these errors. Thus be corrected 469
to 369 and 467 to 376, and he saw that the difference of 8 years by
traditional calculation meant that Jayajana's age of 42 at the former
date would give 50, not 70, at the latter (Manit, p. 94, sections 270-
273).
The series 344+16=359 now has meaning. The reign of King
Mahavarrna would then be 359+21=379, and his successor, maha fayajanab,
would have reigned until " ... era ... Buddhist religion bad
completed ... years, King Maha Jayajanah had reigned 1 year ...", 65
that is, 380, or perhaps even 379 if strict traditional arithmetic is applied.
Now either 379 or 380, depending on the conversion factor used, produces
B.E. 1000 (379+622 or 380+621) which, as I shall indicate below, is
pettinent to the structure of the text. Since it comes forth naturally
from one layer of arithmetic I suggest that it actually belonged in an
older version of the story.
The following date, on p. 98, is, however, 376, which might seem
to go back to one of the erroneous layers uf calculation, since even after
all the corrections, the preceding date was 379. But this 379 had been
supplanted by a date, 467, which was doubly erroneous, resulting from
scribal errors 467