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The Indian Analyst
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South Indian Inscriptions |
EPIGRAPHIA INDICA letters and in the style of writing.’[1] This Yaśōvarman is known to have sent an embassy to the Chinese emperor in 731 A.D. and was defeated by king Lalitāditya Muktāpīḍa of Kashmir, who ruled in the period circa 726-60 A.D.[2] He seems to have died in or shortly before V.S. 811=754 A.D.[3] Yaśōvarman’s reign may thus be assigned approximately to the period 725-54 A.D. The Nalanda inscription seems to have been incised fairly early in his reign since Nalanda lay outside his own dominions in the territories of the Gauḍa king of Bengal and Bihar, whom Yaśōvarman defeated and killed sometime before his own defeat at the hands of king Lalitāditya of Kashmir about 733 A.D.[4] We may therefore assign the incision of the Nalanda inscription to a date in the period 725-33 A.D., say, to 729 A.D. If Ānandachandra’s inscription is assigned approximately to the same date, his accession may be tentatively assigned to 720 A.D. On this basis, Ānandachandra’s eight ancestors’ rule of nearly 120 years may be roughly assigned to the period 600-720 A.D. and the 230 years of Chandra rule approximately to the period 370-600 A.D. On the same basis, the rule of the individual Chandra kings may be tentatively assigned to the following periods :
No. 1. Inscription of the time of Nītichandra TEXT[5]
1 Yē dharmmā hētu-prabhavā hētu[ṁ] tēshā[ṁ] Tathāga[ta]
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[1] Op. cit., p. 365.
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