Did Castana Start The S'aka Era ?

There are many mooted problems which Indian history has had through Its course of time Many of these problems have fetched and are fetching the scholars, from time to time, into the battle of arguments and counter- arguements Sometimes the new findings or discoveries, such as dated epigraphical records, coins etc, offer historians to change

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जमींदार शक संवत् के प्रवर्तक के रूप में सुझाए गए शासकों— वोनोनीस, कनिष्क, नहपान आदि— की समीक्षा करते हैं, प्रत्येक तर्क की सीमाएँ दिखाते हैं, और तिथियुक्त अभिलेखों तथा सिक्कों के आधार पर पश्चिम भारत के कार्दमक शासक चष्टन के पक्ष में प्रमाण जुटाते हैं। Jamindar reviews the rulers proposed as founder of the Saka era, among them Vonones, Kaniska and Nahapana, shows the limits of each argument, and makes a case from the dated inscriptions and the coins for the Kardamaka ruler Castana of western India.

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