Indian Epigraphy c15.t21.7

c15.t21.7

Nothing is known about the founder of the era. Bhagwanlal Indraji suggested that the Siṃha-saṃvat may have been introduced by the Caulukya king Jayasiṃha Siddharāja to commorate the annexation of Southern Kathiawar to his dominions, the event probably taking place in 1113-14 A.D.¹ If this view is accepted, we have to think that the name Jayasiṃha was contracted to Siṃha in the naming of the era and that it was introduced for use only in Kathiawar since the era is not known to have been used elsewhere even in the epigraphs of the Caulukyas. The suggestions of some scholars attributing the dates of a few inscriptions discovered outside Kathiawar to this era have been shown to be untenable by Ojha who regarded those dates as years of the Vikrama era without the mention of hundreds.² The years of the era began on Amānta Āṣāḍha-sudi 1.