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The Indian Analyst
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South Indian Inscriptions |
INSCRIPTIONS OF THE FEUDATORIES OF THE MAIN BRANCH
ofv is therefore no sure sign of the early age of these inscriptions1. The forms of j and t also do not preclude the view that these records belong to the reign of Pṛithivīsheṇa II2. ... The language is Sanskrit and both the inscriptions are in prose. As regards orthography, the only point that need be noticed is the doubling of dh before y in –ānuddhyāta in line 2 of No. 21. ...Inscription No. 20, which is incomplete, mentions in the first line the name of the, Vākāṭaka Mahārāja Pṛithivīshēṇa. The name of his feudatory Vyaghra is incompletely incised in line 2. No. 21 mentions the names of both and records that Vyāghradeva made something, perhaps a temple, a well or a rank, for the religious merit of his father and mother. The record is not dated, but since it belongs to the reign of Pṛithivīsheṇa II as shown above, it may be referred to the period 470 to 490 A.C. Vyāghradēva of the present inscriptions is probably identical with the king Vyāghra of the Uchchhakalpa dynasty who was ruling over the region in the same period. The latter’s son Jayanātha was ruling in G. 174 and G. 1773. His reign may therefore have extended from G. 170 to G. 190. Vyāghra, his father, was therefore probably ruling from circa G. 150 to G. 170 i.e. from 470 A.C. to 490 A.C. He was thus a contemporary of the Vākāṭaka king Pṛithivīshēṇa II.
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...Vyāghradēva, who meditates on the feet of the illustrious Pṛithivīshēṇa (II), the Mahārāja of the Vākāṭakas, has made (this) for the religious merit of (his) mother and father.
1 This form of v occurs throughout in the Bamhanī plates of Narēndrasēna’s feudatory Bharatabala.
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