Chronological Systems of Gujarat

SR No.: 006798
Original Sutra Author: N/A
Author: Bharati K Shelat
Publisher: Pranav Shelat
Publication Year: 1987
Total Pages: 422
Language: English
Classification: Book_English
File Size: 6 MB

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THE CHRONOLOGICAL SYSTEMS OF GUJARAT
the number of the corresponding Vikrama year seems to be corrected into 988.38
The year 962 given for the completion of Upamitibhavaprapañcākathā, seems to belong to the Vikrama Era, though the era is left unspecified therein.39
The Prasasti of Candrakevalicarita dates the composition of the work in the year 598 of an unspecified era. Mironow assigns the year to the Gupta era and the year would accordingly correspond to the V. E. 974 (917 A.C.). This year well fits in with the (Vikrama) year 962 given in the Upamitibhavaprapañcākathā. But it seems very doubtful that the Gupta Era was in such common use as late as the 10th cent. A.C. and that it was, therefore, left unspecified. It is, therefore, probable that there is some clerical or scribal error in the verse containing the date. Presumably the reading Vasvankeșumite varse40, may be corrected into Vasvisvankamite varse. The number of the year would accordingly be corrected into 958. If both the works mentioned above belong to one and the same Siddharși, it is hardly possible that the dates in the two works may be given in two different eras, and that both of them may be left unspecified. In view of the eras prevalent in Western India during this period, it is the Vikrama Era rather than the Gupta Era, that would be, common enough to be left unspecified.
38. Accordingly, 'Navāsťanavakeśveșu' should be corrected into Așță
stanavakeśveşu'. 39. Upamnitibhavaprapancākathū of Siddharşisuri, Nirnayasagara
edition, p. 776 40. M. D. Desai, JSSI, p. 185, f. n. 181