गुप्त अभिलेख संग्रह (जे. एफ. फ्लीट - गुप्त सम्राटों एवं परवर्ती नरेशों के ऐतिहासिक पाषाण व ताम्रलेख)

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and Gujarât," based on their coins, which, in respect at any rate of the so-called Sâh
coins, were then properly examined for the first time. And his conclusions were (id. p. 30)
that the dates on the Sâh coins were to be referred to the Vikrama era, with the result
that the kings of this dynasty extended from A.D. 30 or 40 to A.D. 240 or 250; (id. p. 36)
that they were immediately succeeded, in Gujarât, by Kumâragupta and Skandagupta,
without any intervention of the Indo-Scythians there; and that these two were followed
by the Valabhî dynasty, in A.D. 319. His conclusions, however, were chiefly founded on
the basis (id. p. 31) that "Mr. Prinsep, Mr. Thomas, and Prof. Wilson, agree that the
"Sâhs preceded the Guptas; and it seems clear that the Guptas preceded the Valabhî
"dynasty;" coupled with his acceptance of the fact that the Valabhî era,—and with it I
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