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THE CHRONOLOGICAL SYSTEMS OF GUJARAT
kings of Valabhi dated in the Valabhi Era also do not contain any key-dates.2
A recently discovered M. S. University Copper-plate Grant of Gurjara King Dadda Praśāntarāga3 is dated in (Kelacuri) Sam. 399, Phalguna, ba. di. 15. It also refers to a solar eclipse. According to the epoch of A.C. 248-249, the date would fall in A.C. 649, considering the year as expired.
As the given date mentions a solar eclipse, it admits of verification. The given date would correspond 2. 'Copper-plate inscriptions of Dhruvasena I, (Valabhi) Sam. 207 and 209', JOI., Vol. XII, no. 1 (1962), pp 51 ff.; Svadhyay, Vol. III, no. 1 (1965), pp 19 ff.; 'Gunada Copper-plates of Dharasena II, (Valabhi) Sam. 217', JOI., Vol. XXII. pp 79-83; 'Ambalas Grant of Ŝiladitya I, (Val.) Sam; 290,' Svadhyay, Vol VIII, pp. 178-184, ff; Grant of Dharasena III. (Val) Sam. 305', Buddhi Prakash, Vol. 97. pp. 131 f.; JUB, Vol XIX, part 4, pp. 1-6; 'Grant of Dhruvasena 11, (Val.) Sam.313', Samipya, Vol. I. Part II, pp. 77ff.; 'Målila Grant of Dharasena II(Val.) Sam 323', Buddhi Prakash, Vol. 107, pp. 231 ff.; JOI., Vol. X, pp. 123 ff; 'Vadnagar Grant of Siladitya III, (Val.), Sam. 367,' Svadhyay, Vol. XV, pp. 202 ff.; 'Kunkāvāv grant of Silāditya IV, (Val.) 376', 'Buddhi Prakash, Vol 105, pp. 9 ff.; 'Vadnagar Copper-plites of Siladitya IV, (Val.) 384(?), JOI., Vol. XVII, pp 59 ff., 181 ff; 'Sihor Grant of Ŝiladit IV, (Val) Sam. 387', Buddhi Prakash, Vol. 103, pp. 9 ff., 73 ff, 102 ff.; 'Vadnagar Plates of Ŝiladit a V (circa. A.D. 722)', JOI., \Vol. XVII, pp. 61 ff., 186 ff; ‘Asodar Plates of Siladitya VI, (Val.) Sam. 421', Svadhyay, Vol. XVI, pp. 440 ff.; Asodar Plates of Siladitya JV, (Val.) 425',..Vidyapith, Vol XVII, P. IV, pp. 1 ff.; 3. M S. University Copper-plates of Dadda Prasantaraga, (Kalacuri) Sam 399, Svadhyay, Vol. XIV (Jan., 1977), pp. 172 ff. Dr. R. N. Mehta, the editor, equates the date with 29 Feb., A.C. 648 according to the epoch of 247-248 A.C. and the Amanta system of months.
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