Indian Epigraphy: A Guide to the Study of Inscriptions in Sanskrit, Prakrit, and the Other Indo-Aryan Languages c10.s3.t2.3

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*5.4.2.1.1 Regnal years* The practice of dating records in the regnal years²⁵ of a king, as opposed to years of a continuous era, was widespread in early centuries throughout India, beginning with the inscriptions of Aśoka. In the early centuries of the Christian era several dynasties such as the Sātavāhanas, Ikṣvākus, and Vākāṭakas continued to record only regnal years in their inscriptions, and in the medieval period the Pālas and some other eastern dynasties and the Pallavas, Coḷas, and Pāṇḍyas in the south still used regnal years exclusively or primarily.