History of Kanauj to the Moslem Conquest c11.134

c11.134

(b) That the Harṣa era was used in Nepal is further maintained on the evidence of inscription No. 15, dated *Saṃvat* 153,³ which states that Jayadeva’s mother, Vatsadevī, was the daughter of a Maukhari prince or chief, Bhogavarman, and the grand-daughter of “the great Ādityasena, the illustrious lord of Magadha.” We know Ādityasena of Magadha from the Shahpur stone image inscription,⁴ dated year 66 of an unspecified era, which “from the known facts of Ādityasena’s history . . . . . is that of Harṣavardhana of Kanauj.”⁵ Now, the distance between this date and that of his grandson Jayadeva is 87 years, or slightly above the duration of three Indian generations, which amounts to 78 years approximately⁶. “Under these circumstances,” it is asserted that “it is not in the least doubtful that the great-grandfather and great-grandson used the same era,”⁷ viz. that of Harṣa.