Harry Falk (born 1947 in Emmendingen[1]) is a retired professor of Indology at the Freie Universität in Berlin.
[1][2][3] He has also been Director of the Institute of Indian Philology and Art History at the Free University in Berlin.
[4][5] He realized that the astrological Sanskrit-Text Yavanajātaka (79,15) defined the era of the Kushans, i.e. of Kaniṣka I, as śaka 149, that is AD 227.
This he linked to the long-established practice of the “dropped hundreds”, which allowed to include contemporary data from the Chinese annals Hou Hanshu.
[6] In addition, it became apparent that the Kushan era was used with dropped hundreds up to the fifth century under Gupta rule in Western India.