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EPIGRAPHIA INDICA No. 4] MANDASOR INSCRIPTION OF MALAVA SAMVAT 524 person who had no distinguished ancestors worthy of record. He may have been appointed to the kingship of Daśapura by the paramount power, after the extinction of the Varman dynasty to which Naravarman of the Mandasor inscription[1] of M. E. 461, Viśvavarman of the Gaṅgdhār inscription[2] of (M. E.) 480 and Bandhuvarman of the Mandasor inscription[3] of M. E. 493 belonged. That Prabhākara was not a scion of the Varman dynasty is also corroborated by his name which, unlike those of all the known members of that dynasty, does not end in varman. He, however, seems to have continued his predecessors’ policy of alliance with the Gupta Empire. TEXT
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is an unfamiliar one in Sanskrit. Compare 
in Majjhima Nikāyā, Sūtra 140.
on coins of Kumāragupta, and 
in l. 6 below.
.─ED. ]
in l. 2 above.
equal to 
and synonymous with 
is correct account according to Pāṇini.
[The correct form ought to be 
.─Ed. ]