[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Archaeology, epigraphy and coins](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy) › [The Chronology of India, from the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.duff-1899) › c5.145 # The Chronology of India, from the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century c5.145 The Chronology of India, from the Earliest Times to the Beginning of the Sixteenth Century c5.145 - **Language:** English ### [c5.145](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.duff-1899.c5.145) Toramāṇa, Indo-Scythian of Śākala in the Panjab, establishes himself in Eastern Mālava, probably succeeding Budhagupta. His reign at Śākala may have begun about A.D. 460, and the death of Skandagupta very likely enabled him to invade and hold Central India. He seems, however, to have been defeated, and the Gupta power temporarily restored by Narasimhagupta, with the aid of the Valabhī ruler Bhaṭārka, A.D. 510. An inscription of Toramāṇa at Eraṇ is dated in the first year of his reign in Mālava, and a coin bears the date 52 of an unknown era. The Kura inscription of Toramāṇa Shāha has also been attributed to him.—CI. iii, Int. 11; text, 158. IA. xviii, 225 ff. NC., 3rd ser., ix, 291. JBA. lviii, pt. 1, 98. EI. i, 238. - [Previous: c5.144](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.duff-1899.c5.144) - [Next: c5.146](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.duff-1899.c5.146) - [Up: c5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.duff-1899.c5) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.duff-1899.c5.145](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.epigraphy.duff-1899.c5.145) · Pramāṇa