Political History of Ancient India, from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty c18.s3.70
Political History of Ancient India, from the Accession of Parikshit to the Extinction of the Gupta Dynasty c18.s3.70
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c18.s3.70
4. According to Fergusson, Oldenberg, Thomas, Banerji, Rapson, J. E. Van Lohuizen-De Leeuw, Bachhofer and many other scholars Kanishka was the founder of that reckoning commencing A.D. 78, which came to be known as the *Śaka era*.⁴ This view is not accepted by Prof. Jouveau-Dubreuil on the following grounds:—