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(4) *The 2nd century A.D.* is supported on archaeological grounds by *A. Foucher*, L' art gréco-bouddhique du Gandhāra I, 1905, p. 623, II, 1918, p. 505 ff., *Sir John Marshall* in JRAS, 1914, 973 ff., 1915, 191 ff., Guide to Taxila, 2nd Ed., Calcutta, 1921, p. 17, *V. A. Smith*, History of Fine Art in India and Ceylon, Oxford, 1911, p. 99.¹ The most decided supporter of the view that Kaniṣka did not come into power until after the year 125 A.D. and that the Kaniṣka era begins with the year 128-29 A.D., is *Sten Konow* (ZDMG, 68, 1914, 97; SBA, 1916, 787 ff.; Ep. Ind., XIV, 1918, 130 ff.; Acta Or., II, 1923, 130 ff.; III, 1924, 52 ff.; JBRAS, N. S. 1, 1, 1925, p. 1, ff.; Ind. Hist. Qu., 3, 1927, 851 ff. and lastly in Kharosthi Inscriptions, Corpus Inscriptionum Indicarum, Vol. II, part I, Calcutta, 1929, pp. lxxv ff., lxxx ff., xciii f.). *V. A. Smith*, Early History, 271 ff., gives approximately 120-160 A.D., and *R. Kimura* (Ind. Hist. Qu., 1, 1925, 415 ff.)