Indian Epigraphy c15.t5.48

c15.t5.48

¹ Those who regard the Scytho-Parthian and Kaniṣka eras as different respectively from the Vikrama and Śaka eras do not take into account the obvious foreign origin of both the latter reckonings. They have also no satisfactory explanation of the origin of three out of the four eras, viz. Scytho-Parthian, Vikrama and Śaka, and of the circumstances leading to the disappearance of two of them, viz. Scytho-Parthian and Kaniṣka, and the continuation of the use of two, viz. Vikrama and Śaka. The conclusion that as many as four eras were founded in the age of the Scytho-Parthians and Kuṣāṇas appears to be unrealistic.