section_path: Epigraphy
section_name: Epigraphy
paragraph_text: Epigraphy
  
  According to P. V. Kane, one of the earliest inscriptions with one of the four yugas named is the Pikira grant of Pallava Simhavarman (mid-5th century CE):
  
  Who was ever ready to extricate dharma that had become sunk owing to the evil effects of Kaliyuga.
  
  Other epigraphs exist with named yugas in the Old Mysore region of India, published in Epigraphia Carnatica.