History of Mediaeval Hindu India (being a History of India from 600 to 1200 A.D.) v1.c22.s1.15

v1.c22.s1.15

Under this view there will be between Mānadeva and Jayadeva 759-464 = 295 years which for 19 or even 18 generations of kings in the interval gives 15 or 16 years only for each generation. One is, therefore, convinced that Pandit Bhagvanlal is correct in taking the Vikrama Samvat for the early inscriptions in Nepal; though this contradicts the view of many antiquarians, as the Pandit himself has observed, that the Vikrama Samvat was concocted about the beginning of the 5th century A.D. This is the great importance and value of these inscriptions as they umistaknably give us a date in Vikrama Samvat so old as 386 or A. D. 329 i. e. preceding the fifth century.