Note 3 — Chapter VI · THE TRAIKÚṬAKAS (a.d. 250–450.)

Initial Date.What then was the initial date of the Traikúṭakas? Ten Gujarát copper-plates of the Gurjjaras and Chalukyas are dated in an unknown era with Saṃ. followed by the date figures as in the Párdi plate and as in Gupta inscriptions. The earliest is the fragment from Saṅkheḍá in the Baroda State dated Saṃ. 346, which would fall in the reign of Dadda I. of Broach.3 Next come the two Kaira grants of the Gurjjara king Dadda Praśántarága dated Saṃ. 380 and Saṃ. 3854; and the Saṅkheḍá grant of Raṇagraha dated Saṃ. 3915; then the Kaira grant of the Chalukya king Vijayarája or Vijayavarman dated Saṃvatsara 3946; then the Bagumrá grant of the Sendraka chief Nikumbhallaśakti7; Chapter VI. The Traikúṭakas, a.d. 250–450. Initial Date. two grants from Navsári and Surat of the Chalukya king Śíláditya Śryáśraya dated 421 and 4438; two the Navsári and Kávi grants of the Gurjjara king Jayabhaṭa dated respectively Saṃ. 456 and Saṃ. 4869; and a grant of Pulakeśi dated Saṃvat 490.10