Indian Epigraphy c15.t6.44

c15.t6.44

It will be seen that the reckoning was at first known as the Kṛta era and was prevalent in Rajasthan and Malwa. Soon it began to be associated with the Mālava tribe and was styled ‘era handed down by the Mālava Republic,’ ‘the year counted in accordance with the custom established by (or, from the foundation of) the Mālava Republic’ and ‘the *pūrvā*⁹ of the Mālavas’. It was also known as the era ‘that speaks of the glory of the Mālava race’, and later as the era (*kāla*) belonging to the Mālava country or to the king or kings of Mālava. Sometime later, the era was further associated with Vikramāditya.¹