saMvat
2. saM-vat ind. (a contraction of saM-vatsara below) a year, in the year (in later times esp. of the Vikrama era [beginning in 58 B.C. See vikramA ditya ] as opp. to the Śaka era [in modern times supposed to be founded by Śāli-vāhana ; see 3. Saka ]; sometimes = ‘in the year of the reign of’), Inscr. &c., IW. 494.
3. saM-vat mfn. containing the word sam , ŚāṅkhBr.