{"id":3677,"date":"2003-11-06T12:00:00","date_gmt":"2003-11-06T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2003\/11\/06\/2003-11-06-a-technical-question-on-vikram-samvat-era\/"},"modified":"2003-11-06T12:00:00","modified_gmt":"2003-11-06T12:00:00","slug":"2003-11-06-a-technical-question-on-vikram-samvat-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/2003\/11\/06\/2003-11-06-a-technical-question-on-vikram-samvat-era\/","title":{"rendered":"A Technical Question on Vikram Samvat Era"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a HREF=\"mailto:Mayank Gandhi <mgandhi77@yahoo.com>&#8220;>Source<\/a><\/P><P>USA, November 6, 2003: Mayank Gandhi hopes someone knows the answer to this rather technical question. You may e-mail her at &#8220;source&#8221; above. <BR><br \/>\n<BR><br \/>\n&#8220;My understanding till recently was that the great king Vikram Aditya (of the Gupta dynasty) was responsible for the Vikram samvat era, which commenced in 56 bce and which we Hindus follow even today. Therefore, it is &#8216;Vikram&#8217; samvat 2060 today. My initial confusion was that how did this era start in 56 bce when Vikram Aditya only ruled between 380-413 ce. In fact, the entire Gupta dynasty (320-540\/647ce) ruled hundreds of years after this &#8216;Vikram samvat&#8217; era commenced. I know now that there is a history-mythology explanation to this discrepancy, i.e. the Vikramaditya of Vikram samvat is a mythological creation (capital Ujjain) and the famous Vikram-Vetal stories refer to him, whereas the Vikramaditya (or Chandragupta II) of the Gupta dynasty is a historical figure whose capital was Pataliputra (Patna). 1. My question who is the author\/creator of the mythological entity? 2. Also any idea why 58 bce and why no linkage to any &#8216;Yug&#8217;?&#8221;<\/P> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3677","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hinduismtoday.com\/hpi\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}