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The Greeks in Bactria and India c10.s7.233

The Greeks in Bactria and India c10.s7.233

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c10.s7.233

² *CII* p. 65 no. xxiv. It is dated in the year 113 of some Era, which Konow, I think rightly, made the first Saca Era, that of the Moga copper-plate. The year 113, on his reckoning in *CII*, was A.D. 29; on mine (see App. 16) it would be *c.* 42 B.C., which is preferable; for at that time the Sacas were ruling in Gandhāra, while in A.D. 29 they were not. Konow, however, has now abandoned the *CII* dating for inscriptions dated in the old Saca Era (see *JIH* XII, 1933, pp. 1-4, and App. 16) and his new dating would fall during Saca rule.