Indian Epigraphy c15.t6.64

c15.t6.64

The earliest use of the Kṛta-Mālava era outside the western and north-western parts of India is found in the Haraha (Bara Banki District, U.P.) inscription of Maukhari Īśānavarman, dated in the year 611. The use of the era by the Maukharis of U. P. and Bihar is clearly explained by the Badva inscriptions of the third century A.D., found in the Kotah region of Rajasthan. These records belong to the Maukharis and are dated in the Kṛta-Mālava era. The Maukharis, therefore, appear to have carried the use of the above era from their home in Rajasthan to their new settlements in the east. There is no doubt that they were originally subordinate to the Mālavas, and it is probable that they really belonged to the Mālava stock.²