Indian Epigraphical Glossary c6.558

c6.558

*atīta-rājya* (IA 19), indicates that so many years ‘since [the commencement of] the reign have [now] passed’; used in connection with the regnal reckoning of Govindapāla and Lakṣmaṇasena and rarely with the years of an era (e.g. the Vikrama-saṃvat associated with the reign of a legendary king named Vikramāditya). See also *gata-rājya* and *vinaṣṭa-rājya*. Cf. *JAS*, Letters, Vol. XX, 1954, pp. 43 ff.