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Mahāsāmanta Jāika I" is curiously left undated, while the dāte of the grant of King Rāņaka12 is not known as the second plate is missing.
The remaining plates are dated as follows :
(i) The Ghumli copper plates of the time of the Saindhava king Agguka II are dated in the year 513 of an unspecified era13, identified with the Gupta era. Accordingly, the (Gupta) year 513 corresponds to 832– 33 A.C.
(ii) The grant of Mahāsāmanta Śrī Rāņaka of a subordinate Saindhava branch is recorded in the year 555 of the Gupta-Kāla!“, which corresponds to 87475 A.C.
(iii) The grant of Mahāsāmantādhipati Agguka III is dated in the Gupta Samvat 56715, the corresponding Christian year of which is 886-87.
(iv) The Morbi copper plate of the Saindhava king Śrī Jāikadeva is dated in the Gupta year 58516, which corresponds to 904-05 A.C.
(v) The copper plates of Mahāsāmantādhipati Śrī Jāika II are dated in the G. Saṁ. 59617. The year corresponds to 915–16 A.C.
The uniform use of the Gupta era in the records of the Saindhava kings who hailed from Sindh and established their power in Western Saurashtra by the 11. EI, Vol. XXVI, pp. 203 ff. 12. Ibid., pp. 207 ff. 13-14-15. EI, Vol. XXVI, pp. 203, 217, 222. 16. IA, Vol. II, pp. 257 ff. 17. EI, Vol. XXVI, p. 226.
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