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Swami Samantabhadra.
One more point needs to be clarified here, and that is that in the aforementioned verse of Triloksar, the word 'to' is used after 'Sagrajyo', which is indicative of 'tatah' (thereafter). In the Sanskrit commentary by Madhavachandra Traividyadeva, its meaning is also "thereafter". And from this, it is clear that the Shak king's reign ended, or 394 years and 7 months after his death, Kalki became king. And since it is found in the Trilokprajnapti and other texts that Kalki's death occurs a thousand years after the Vira Nirvana, therefore, the aforementioned 394 years and 7 months also include Kalki's reign, which according to Trilokprajnapti is said to be 42 years. In other words, it should be said that the time given for Shak and Kalki in this verse indicates the end of their respective reigns. And therefore, it cannot be said that the Shak king's reign began 605 years and 5 months after the Vira Nirvana, and after its end, 394 years and 7 months passed before Kalki's reign began. Saying so would make Kalki's existence time not within a thousand years of the Vira Nirvana, but close to 1100 years, and that would hinder the fixed number of a thousand. Thus. If we accept that the Shak king's reign ended 605 years and 5 months after the Vira Nirvana, then it automatically has to be accepted that the Vikram king's reign also ended after 470 years of the Vira Nirvana, and therefore, 470 years after the Vira Nirvana.
* See the article "Lokvibhaag and Trilokprajnapti" in Jain Hitaishi, Part 13, Issue 12.