Book of Indian Eras, with Tables for Calculating Indian Dates c18.22

c18.22

By the first date, the period of Samudra Gupta, the son of Chandra Gupta I, the presumed founder of the era, would fall between the year 200 and 230 A.D., which agrees with the fact that he was a contemporary of the Devaputra Shâhi, Shahân Shâhi, or the king of the Great Yue-chi Indo-Scythians.