Indian Epigraphy c15.t10.5

c15.t10.5

² The inscriptions of Mānadeva and his successors including the earlier records of Amśuvarman are dated in the Śaka era (Select Inscriptions, p. 866, note 1). But the later epigraphs of Amśuvarman and his successors bear dates in the Śaka era minus 500, i. e. Śaka 501 = year 1 of Amśuvarman’s regnal reckoning, as we shall see below (p. 297)