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the discovery need not shake the conviction of those that attribute to Kanishka the era of 78 A.D. The omission of the personal name of the Kushān monarch does not necessarily imply that the first Kushān is meant. In several inscriptions of the time of Kumāra Gupta and Budha Gupta, the king is referred to simply as Gupta nripa.)
(c) Professor Dubreuil says : "Sten Konow has shown that the Tibetan and Chinese documents tend to prove that Kanishka reigned in the second century."
(This Kanishka may have been Kanishka of the Ārā Inscription of the year 41 which, if referred to the Saka era, would give a date in the second century A.D. Po-t'iao of Sten Konow,' the king of the Yue-chi who sent an ambassador to China in A.D. 230, may have been one of the successors of Vāsudeva I. "Coins bearing the name of Vāsudeva continued to be struck long after he had passed away."2 Dr. Smith, Mr. R. D. Banerji and Dr. S. Konow himself clearly recognise the existence of more than one Vāsueva.) 3 .
(d) Sten Konow has also shown that the inscriptions of the Kanishka era and those of the Saka era are not dated in the same fashion. (But the same scholar also shows that all the inscriptions of the Kanishka era are also not dated in the same fashion. In the Kharoshthî inscriptions, Kanishka and his successors recorded the dates in the same way as their Saka-Pablava predecessors, giving the name of the month and the day within the month. On the other hand, in their Brālmî records Kanishka and his suocessors usually adopted the Ancient
1 Vasudeva? Ep. Ind., XIV, p. 141. Corpus, II, i. lxxvii ; cf. Acta, 11, 133. 2 EHI, 3rd ed., p. 272. 3 Ibid, pp. 272-78, Corpus, ii, I. lxxvii.
