Indian Epigraphy c15.t18.27

c15.t18.27

According to the Nepalese *Vaṃśāvalis*, ‘immediately before the accession of Aṃśuvarman, Vikramāditya came to the country (Nepal) and established his era there’.¹ It has been suggested that by Vikramāditya the chroniclers meant Harṣa Śīlāditya as at this period there was no other Indian monarch capable of extending his influence in Nepal. This suggestion could be supported by the fact that, in Indian tradition, Harṣa Śīlāditya was persistently confused with the legendary Śakāri Vikramāditya of Ujjayinī, probably because Harṣa was the founder of an era like the traditional originator of the Vikrama-saṃvat.² Thus Indian tradition seems to speak of Harṣa indirectly as the founder of an era exactly as the celebrated Vikramāditya.