Harry Falk is a retired professor of Indology at the Freie Universität in Berlin.[1][2] He has also been Director of the Institute of Indian Philology and Art History at the Free University in Berlin. He is a noted Indologist.[3][4]

Kushan era

He realized that the astrological Sanskrit-Text Yavanajātaka (79,15) defined the era of the Kushans, i.e. of Kaniṣka I, as śaka 149, that is AD 227. This he linked to the long-established practice of the “dropped hundreds”, which allowed to include contemporary data from the Chinese annals Hou Hanshu. The start of the Kushan era was so defined in AD 127.[5] In addition it became apparent that the Kushan era was used with dropped hundreds up to the fifth century under Gupta rule in Western India.[6][7]

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References

  1. ^ Olivelle, Patrick (2006). Between the Empires: Society in India 300 BCE to 400 CE. Oxford University Press. p. xii. ISBN 9780199775071.
  2. ^ University profile Freie Universität Archived 2018-10-04 at the Wayback Machine
  3. ^ Wilke, Annette; Moebus, Oliver (2011). Sound and Communication: An Aesthetic Cultural History of Sanskrit Hinduism. Walter de Gruyter. p. 191. ISBN 9783110240030.
  4. ^ Lössl, Josef; Baker-Brian, Nicholas J. (2018). A Companion to Religion in Late Antiquity. John Wiley & Sons. p. 212. ISBN 9781118968116.
  5. ^ The yuga of Sphujiddhvaja and the era of the Kuṣāṇas. In: Silk Road Art and Archaeology. Vol. 7, 2001, p. 121–136.
  6. ^ The Kaniṣka era in Gupta records. In: Silk Road Art and Archaeology. Vol. 10, 2004, p. 167–176.
  7. ^ Eltsov, Piotr Andreevich (2008). From Harappa to Hastinapura: A Study of the Earliest South Asian City and Civilization. Brill. p. xxxi. ISBN 9789004160606.
  8. ^ Olivelle, Patrick (2006). Between the Empires: Society in India 300 BCE to 400 CE. Oxford University Press. ISBN 9780199775071.
  9. ^ Voogt, Alexander J. de; Finkel, Irving L. (2010). The Idea of Writing: Play and Complexity. BRILL. p. 207. ISBN 900417446X.

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