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Four other dates given in an unspecified era are also ascribed not justifiably to the Simha era. They are as follows :
(i) The date of the copper-plate edict of the Caulukya King Bhimdeva, dated Saṁ. 9312, has been referred to the Simha era by Fleet13 who inferred that the edict belonged to Vikrama Sam. 1262-63 (Simha Sam. 93) and identified King Bhimadeva with Bhīmadeva II (circa V.S. 1235 to 1298).14 But on scrutiny of the particulars of the edict, it is found that the Lekhaka and the Dūtaka mentioned in this edict are
(ii) Prabhas Pātan inscription dated Valabhi Saṁ. 850 and
Simha year 60
The inscription is introduced as located in the Bhutnath Temple at Junagadh, but that location really belongs to another inscription which belonged to Vāmanasthali, while this inscription belonged to Prabhas Patan and is preserved at Watson Museum, Rajkot.
(H. P. Shastri 'Parama Māheśvara Rāja Kumarapāla' Forbes Gujarati Sabhā Traimásika, Vol. IV, p. 27, N. 17). The date was read Val. Saṁ 850 by the edi!or. As suggested by H.P. Shastri it would be Val. Sam. 855 (Ibid., p 28, n. 18). As noticed by H. G. Shastri, the real reading on the epigraph is Val. Sam. 855. (iii) Royal Asiatic Society copper-plate inscription of the time
of Bhimadeva 1- dated V. S. 1266 and Simha year 96
(iv) Somanath Patan stone inscription of the time of Arjundeva.
dated A. H. 662, Vikrama Sam 1320, Val. Sam. 965 and
Simha year 151. 12. Bhandarkar's List, No. 1464; G. V. Acharya, HIGI, No. 152 13. 1A., Vol. XVIII, pp. 108-9
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