The History of Indian Literature c9.79

c9.79

²¹⁴ In a prophetic chapter of the Skanda-Puráṇa, for instance, he is placed in the year *Kali* 3290 (*i.e.*, A.D. 189), but at the same time only twenty years before the Nandas whom Cháṇakya is to destroy. To Vikramáditya, on the other hand, is assigned the date *Kali* 4000, *i.e.*, A.D. 899 (!); see the text in Íśvarachandra Vidyáságara's *Marriage of Hindoo Widows*, p. 63 (Calc. 1856), and in my *Essay on the Rámáyaṇa*, p. 43.