736 Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bengal. {December, 1911. 
of the history of the world, and reduced to some sort of order the 
date of the invasion of Northern India by the Yuehti, as well as 
the main facts about the first, and apparently greatest of the 
Kushan kings, we may pause awhile to consider the era so well 
own. in what passes for Indian chronology as the Vikramaditya 
Samvat, on which many theories have been built up,—so many, 
) ushan monarchs. It, however, accom- 
plished no conquests, but from the beginning lost territory to its 
more powerful rivals on the west and south. — a 
5. Now in Indian tradition Vikramaditya is given the — 
pre-eminent title of Cakiri (Enemy of the Cake) or Cakantika — 
e 
be rendered ‘‘ The out-stepping- 
author. 
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