The Greeks in Bactria and India c28.55

c28.55

It only remains to notice two possible objections to the view here put forward. One is Herzfeld’s: as the Saca Era of A.D. 78 is certain, a second Saca Era is improbable.² There is really nothing in this. The first Saca kingdom in India ended by everything that remained after the loss of Malva and Ujjain coming under the rule of the Parthian Suren Gondophares in A.D. 19; this put an end to the use for official purposes of the first Saca Era of c. 155 B.C., even if Gondophares’ Saca subjects continued to use it. Malva and Ujjain had been lost in 58 B.C. to the Indian king Vikramāditya (whatever this name represents), who commemorated this by the establishment of the Vikrama Era; and when the Western Saca Satraps retook Ujjain in A.D. 78 they may have set up a new Era of their own (see further, p. 335).