Indian Epigraphy c15.t5.2

c15.t5.2

According to some scholars, "it is an indisputable axiom that nobody but an anointed king can initiate a Saṃvat of his own."⁹ But the statement is rather misleading. An early era appears to have been nothing more than the regnal reckoning of an independent king (who was not bound to use the regnal date of his suzerain) continued by his successors.