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¹ *Early Hist. of the Dekkan*, 2nd ed., in *Bomb. Gaz.* (1896), vol. i, pt. ii, p. 171. M. M. Haraparshad Shastri (*Ep. Ind.*, xii, 320) notes that Hāla ‘cannot be placed later than the first century A. D.’, and that the *Saptaśatī* (as he calls it) mentions a king named Vikramāditya, who *may* be the founder of the era.