The Dynasties of the Kanarese Districts of the Bombay Presidency from the Earliest Historical Times to the Musalman Conquest c8.s14.168

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One of his first acts was to supersede the use of the Śaka era by an era called the Châlukya-Vikrama-kâla and Châlukya-Vikrama-varsha, the first year of which was the first year of his actual reign after the deposition of Sômêśvara II., i.e. A. D. 1076-77. As the inscriptions say, "By his amplitude, and unaided, Tribhuvanamalla, the king Châlukya-Vikramâditya, caused all the hostile kings to bow down, and became the lord of the world. Having rubbed out the brilliant Śaka-varsha, he, the impetuous one, the most liberal man in the world, who delighted in religion, published his own name throughout the world, under the form of the Vikrama-varsha; "² and again, "Why should the glory of the kings Vikramâditya and Nanda be a hindrance any longer?", he, with a loudly uttered command, abolished that (era) which has the name of Śaka, and made that (era) which has the Châlukya counting."³ Instances have not been found of this era having been adopted by the kings of other dynasties. But nearly all the records of his own time are thus dated, not in the Śaka era, but in his regnal years; the names of the saṁvatsaras, however, shewing exactly what the corresponding Śaka years are. And there are a few subsequent records, which shew that an attempt was made by his successor, and by feudatory governors, to preserve the use of his era.⁴