9 From the road which runs between Salfmgarh and Nilchatri the spectator can only see the pyramidal roof of the latter the back of the temple being completely lost in the bed of the new road and the roof has the appearance of a small enamelled pyramid placed on the northern side of the road. [...] e. in the year 78 A. D.) ; identifies the former with Salivahana the founder of the Saka Era who like V ikramiditya the conqueror of the Sakas is said to have reigned for ninety years and finally fixes the date of the defeat of the Saka conqueror of Dilli in 78 A. D. which is the initial year of the Saka era. [...] General Cunningham accounts for it on the supposition that the.author of the Ain-i-Akbari had accepted the Balabhi Sanivt 429 for that of VikranAditya ; the initial year of the Balabhi era is the 319th of that of Christ and the Balabhi Samvat 429 would therefore be 747 A. D. Similarly he explains that the date of the re-building of Dilli on the Iron Pillar refers to Samvat 419 of the Balabhi [...] The alphabet belongs in my opinion to the end of the fifth or bginning of the sixth century of the Christian era." The composition of the inscription is poetical consisting of six lines or three slokas ; the first line of which is in much smaller hand than the rest. [...] The steps of the temple meet the steps of the ghat at about the middle of the distance between the ruins and the level of the water.
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