Indian Epigraphy c15.t17.1

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⁶ Ojha (*Bhāratīya Prācīn Lipimālā*, pp. 176-77) quotes certain untenable views of earlier authors on the subject of this era. The era is sometimes wrongly mentioned as the Gaṅga-Kadamba era. The Kadamba and Tumburu feudatories of the Gaṅgas introduced the name of their dynasties in the specification of the date of their records without having really anything to do with the foundation of the era. There are other instances of this kind. Some of the untenable views on the initial year of the Gaṅga era are those of G. Ramadas (349-50 A.D., *JBORS*, Vol. XVIII, p. 291), R.D. Banerji (741 A.D., *History of Orissa*, Vol. I, p. 239), B.C. Mazumdar (772 A.D., *JBORS*, Vol. II, pp. 361-62), R. Sewell (877-78 A.D., *Hist. Ins. S. ’nd*, p. 58), etc.