Early History of the Dekkan down to the Mahomedan Conquest c23.18

c23.18

In this manner the Vikrama era will not do for the Satrap dates Besides, no trace whatever has hitherto been discovered of the use of that era in the early centuries of Christ Since, then, the use of no other era at the time has been well authenticated, the Satraps must be supposed to have employed the Saka era The circumstances of the country at that period render, as I have shown, the establishment of this era by the Sakas who ruled over the country in every way probable The latest Satrap date will thus correspond to 382 A D , and Chandragupta, the conqueror of the Satraps, can be rendered posterior to this only by taking 242 Saka *current* or 319 320 A D as the first *current* year of the Gupta era, for his 93 *past* will then correspond to 412-413 A D And in this way Rudradâman's 72 will correspond to 150 A D, and Chashtana's date will be about 130 A D, *i e* anterior to the date of Ptolemy's geography by about 25 years Thus, then, the evidence in favour of Albīrūnī’s initial date for the Gupta era appears to me to be simply overwhelming