Indian Epigraphy c15.t4.50

c15.t4.50

In connection with the question of regnal reckoning, it has to be pointed out that some royal families (e.g. the Coḷas and Pāṇḍyas of South India, the Pālas and Candras of Bengal, the Brahmapāla kings of Assam and many others) dated their records in regnal years even when the use of an era was quite popular in the neighbouring territories. The influence of local conservatism explains the fact that, in spite of the introduction of the Gupta era in Bengal and Assam, later ruling families of those areas resumed the practice of dating charters in the regnal reckoning.¹