Harry Falk (born 1947 in Emmendingen) is a retired professor of Indology at the Freie Universität in Berlin. He has also been Director of the Institute of Indian Philology and Art History at the Free University in Berlin. He is a noted Indologist.
He realized that the astrological Sanskrit-Text YavanajÃÂtaka (79,15) defined the era of the Kushans, i.e. of Kaniá¹£ka I, as à Âaka 149, that is AD 227. This he linked to the long-established practice of the âÂÂdropped hundredsâÂÂ, which allowed to include contemporary data from the Chinese annals Hou Hanshu. The start of the Kushan era was so defined in AD 127. 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.