A History of Indian Literature v2.c25.7

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(2) The view that Kaniṣka is *the founder of the Śaka era in 78 A.D.* was first put forward by *J. Fergusson* in JRAS, 1880, 259 ff. and by H. *Oldenberg* in Zeitschrift für Numismatik 8, 1881, 289 ff. (English translation in Ind. Ant. 10, 1881, 213 ff.), and is still defended at the present day by E. J. *Rapson* (Cambridge History I, pp. 581, 583 ff.), Daya Ram *Sahni* in JRAS, 1924, 399 ff., L. *Bachhofer* in OZ, 1927, 21 ff., 1930, 10 ff., Hari Charan *Ghosh* in Ind. Hist. Qu. 4, 1928, 760 ff.; 5, 1929, 49 ff. *The first century A.D. is assumed as Kaniṣka's time by* L. A. *Waddell* in JRAS, 1913, 947 ff., on archaeological grounds, and by J. Ph. *Vogel* in Ep. Ind., VIII, 173 ff. on palæographical grounds.