Indian Epigraphy c6.s4.12

c6.s4.12

There are some inscriptions mentioning past events with reference to particular dates. Thus an inscription¹ from Mandasor tells us how a temple of the Sun-god was built in the said locality in [Vikrama] Saṃvat 493 (436 A.D.), Pauṣa-sudi 13, when Bandhuvarman was ruling over the area as a feudatory of the Gupta emperor Kumāragupta I and how the same temple was repaired in [Vikrama] Saṃvat 529 (473 A.D.), Phālguna-sudi 2. Of course, in areas where the use of an era was not popular, a past event was usually associated with the regnal reckoning of bygone monarchs. Thus the Madras Museum plates² of the 16th regnal year of Uttama-coḻa refer to two earlier events respectively of the 22nd regnal year of Parakesarin (Parāntaka I) and the 9th regnal year of Kampavarman.