[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [General history and culture](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general) › [History of Kanauj to the Moslem Conquest](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tripathi-1937) › c11.134 # History of Kanauj to the Moslem Conquest c11.134 History of Kanauj to the Moslem Conquest c11.134 - **Language:** English ### [c11.134](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tripathi-1937.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. - [Previous: c11.133](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tripathi-1937.c11.133) - [Next: c11.135](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tripathi-1937.c11.135) - [Up: c11](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tripathi-1937.c11) ## Linked texts (1) - [Inscription No. 15](https://indike.org/pramana/inp.epigraphy.deccan.varia.inscription-no-15) — Prakrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tripathi-1937.c11.134](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.general.tripathi-1937.c11.134) · Pramāṇa