Political History of Ancient India, from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty c18.s2.11
Political History of Ancient India, from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty c18.s2.11
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² For Fleet's interpretation of "*Sa 136 ayasa ashaḍasa masasa, etc.,*" see *JRAS*, 1914, 995 ff.; also *Calcutta Review*, 1922, December, 493-494. S. Konow thought at one time that *ayasa* stood for *ādyasya* (=the first). He took the word as qualifying *ashaḍasa*. But he changed his views after the discovery of the Kalawān Inscription of 134. He now thinks that the addition *ayasa*, *ajasa* does not characterize the era as instituted by Azes, but simply as 'connected with Parthian rulers' (*Ep. Ind.*, xxi. 255 f.). He refers the dates 134, 136 to the era of 58 B.C.